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Tunnelling Towards Hope
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| 28 February - 6 March 2014 |
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| Ukraine History |
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A Stronghold of Rulers and Rebels
With the recent death toll jumping to nearly 100 and 1,000 injured, Hrushevskoho Street, one of the strongholds of EuroMaidan’s three-month-long protests, made headlines around the globe. It was here, on 19 January the country’s stand against government corruption, abuse of power, and the violation of human rights turned from peaceful protest to all-out revolution. Having witnessed much over the years, Hrushevskoho is a street with a history, and not only care of recent days.
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| Ukraine Today |
 Acelebrity using their status and intelligence to influence public views and opinion is rarely seen in modern society, even less so in Ukraine. Here, the majority of celebs use their time, effort, and money to enhance or further their career rather than put their name to something that can do good for others. However, as EuroMaidan intensifies, some are making themselves heard – and they fall either side of the EuroMaidan divide.
It used to be that when rebellion and revolution occurred, the intellectual, creative, and spiritual elite would be front and centre.
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When Walls Can Talk
People have been writing on walls since the dawn of civilisation, we call it graffiti, and ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Sometimes it is merely the creator wanting to leave his or her mark; sometimes there is an underlying social or political reason. And it is due to the latter that graffiti has exploded across Kyiv in recent months. Anti dictator messages aside, we peel back a few layers of paint to look at graffiti in the city in general.
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| Whats Up? |
Shufrych Allegedly Punches Out Rival
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 Party of Regions bully-boy Nestor Shufrych can’t stay out of trouble. This time he allegedly beat up disgraced former Transport Minister Mykola Rudkovsky, recently out of jail for corruption. Rudkovsky, who liked to take local beauty queen Sasha Nikolaenko to Paris on the public tab (that’s Sasha pictured – did you expect a photo of Shufrych or Rudkovsky?), typically wears a self-satisfied smile, which Nestor seems to have knocked off his face. Last week Rudkovsky showed up at his local Interior Ministry station in Pechersk with a busted lip and filed charges against Shufrych. Rudkovsky says Shufrych came to his offices on Ivana Mazepy in a ‘state of nervous agitation’ and punched him several times in the face.Rudkovsky’s press secretary testified that Shufrych entered Rudkovsky’s office, “from which was audible a conversation in raised tones.”
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Then there was “the sound of furniture moving and Rudkovsky’s voice saying, ‘Nestor, get out!’” She also testified that Shufrych came to Rudkovsky “with some demand or question,” and that her boss refused him. “Kolya, why?” Shufrych demanded. “Kolya, when you were in prison I helped you.” Shufrych’s last fight was in February at the Boris clinic in central Kyiv, an incident that also involved Rudkovsky.
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Rights We Didn’t Know We Had
Throughout EuroMaidan much has been made of Ukrainians making a stand for their rights. What exactly those rights are were never clearly defined. Ukraine ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1952. The first article of the Declaration states all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, they are endowed with reason and conscience, and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. The ousted and overthrown Ukrainian government showed to the world they don’t understand the meaning of these words.
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Pulling Strings
 Located on Hrushevskoho Street – the epicentre of EuroMaidan violence, home to battles, blazes and barricades – children’s favourite the Academic Puppet Theatre had to shut down in February. Nevertheless, it is getting ready to reopen this March with a renewed repertoire to bring some laughter back to a scene of tragedy. Operating (not manipulating) puppets is a subtle art that can make kids laugh and adults cry. What’s On meets Mykola Petrenko, art director of the Theatre, to learn more about those who pull the strings behind the show.
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