lymelineAre Libraries Doomed?lymelineHe completed his service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine in early 2010 after a 27-month tour of duty. John always welcomes comments on his articles. Email him at johnguylaplante@yahoo.com I read something startling the other day.and more »

Record companies score infringement victory over "Russian Facebook"Ars Technica (blog)by Megan Geuss - May 18, 2012 9:46 pm UTC Russian social media site vKontakte—a platform with 135 million accounts across Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus—has lost its court appeal seeking to overturn an earlier ruling against it stating that ...and more »

The Day Weekly Digest“Exalted aims cost an effort”The Day Weekly DigestThe conference also dealt with a large-scale project, Ukraine Incognita (incognita.day.kiev.ua), which Den launched to mark its 15th anniversary, and The Power of the Soft Sign, or the Return of Rus' Truth, the latest book in the Den Library series.

Prosecutors: Trio planned to attack Obama's headquartersKyiv PostOne woman carried a sign calling Emanuel a bully for closing mental health clinics and libraries in poor neighborhoods. Others chanted that health care should be a human right. "We are exercising our power to go and tell him what we want," said N'Dana ...and more »

ESPNFrom death to life, from loss to win, from political metaphor to sports clichéESPNLibraries in Florida, Georgia and Wisconsin banned "Fifty Shades of Grey"; toxicology reports revealed that painter Thomas Kinkade died of a broken heart; and by the time you finish this sentence, "The Avengers" will have earned nearly $1 billion at ...

For centennial of Agnon's first novella, a search for books and rootsJewish Telegraphic Agency... Agnon's native Galicia, an area that overlaps the border of present-day Poland and Ukraine. A century later, just two of those 50 editions have been located: one in Israel's national library and the other in the Agnon family's private collection.and more »

Searching for SY Agnon's first novellaJerusalem Post... Agnon's native Galicia, an area that overlaps the border of present-day Poland and Ukraine. A century later, just two of those 50 editions have been located: one in Israel's national library and the other in the Agnon family's private collection.and more »

Blue sky, green sea in our yellow submarineKyiv PostInstead, he scoured libraries to help himself with his unusual hobby. Pylypenko used no blueprints, and often replaced spare parts used in submarines with whatever was at hand, ordering some essential spare parts like portholes at a helicopter plant in ...

ScotsmanMarriage of convenience: Labour and SNP ready to work togetherScotsmanThe former is a communist-turned-socialist-turned-Nationalist who met his fourth wife on a business trip to Ukraine, while the latter is a one-time lecturer in political science with a keen interest in constitutional reform.and more »

Silicon Valley techie turns travel-writing nomadSan Jose Mercury NewsOver the course of six months, Tapon ran the table from Albania to Ukraine. (Of the former, he says: "You've got the whole place pretty much to yourself.") He soon found an unexpected benefit to being one of few Western travelers to many of these ...and more »