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Ukraine Today
In November 2013 Ukraine erupted in mass demonstrations against the gov-
ernment when president Viktor Yanukovych, under pressure from Russian
president Putin to join a customs union with Russia, refused to sign an As-
sociation Agreement with the EU, a first step to membership. Thousands of
protesters set up a round-the-clock camp in central Kyiv in sub-zero tem-
peratures. But underlying the Euromaidan protests are deeper issues than
just EU membership.
Best on Film
SShaddows o
s of F
f Forgotten A
n Ancestors (1964) Shaggy Hutsul customs and symbolism.
Za D
a Zaytsamii (Chasing Two Hares; 1961) Diverting romp through early
20th-century Kyiv.
TThe B
a Dvuumya Z
f Chernoobyyl (2006) Detailed documentary on the Chornobyl disaster
and its aftermath.
Orange R
e Battle o
tle of Ch
e Revolut
olutiion (2007) Steven York's documentary on the events of 2004.
Eveniings o
s on a F
n a Farm n
m near D
r Diikannka (1961) Technicolor film version of Gogol's most
Ukrainian tales.
Best in Print
Eveniings o
s on a F
n a Farm n
m near D
r Diikannka Nikolai Gogol's stories, mostly set in his native
Poltava region.
Bordderla
rland Anna Reid's journey through Ukrainian history.
Death a
th and th
d the P
e Penguin
uin Andrey Kurkov's Kafkaesque tale set in the troubled early
1990s.
Everytthiing Is Illum
g Is Illumiinated Jonathan Safran Foer searches for the lost west Ukraini-
an shtetl(village) of Trachimbrod.
Taras B
s Bulb
ulba Gogol's swashbuckling Cossack tale.
TThe Wh
e Whiite G
e Guuard Bulgakov's portrait of Kyiv during the Russian Civil War.
