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["Adrian Ivakhiv" <aivakhiv@verizon.net>]



Can anyone tell me when Sil's'ki Visti (which I had thought was run by the Socialist Party) moved from being under Moroz's wing to an orientation that is pro-Lutsenko (he is in fact on the editorial board) and critical of Moroz?

 

See, e.g., Oleksandr Cherevko's lead articles on March 27 and April 3:

http://www.silskivisti.kiev.ua/pdf/01_04_2007_037.pdf

and

http://www.silskivisti.kiev.ua/pdf/27_03_2007_034.pdf

 

(Sil's'ki Visti is one of the widest-circulation newspapers in Ukraine.

Ex-Socialist Lutsenko, Yushchenko's former Interior Minister, now leads Narodnia Samooborona and, alongside Yulia and new Our Ukraine leader Kyrylenko, was one of the three leaders of this past weekend's "oppositional" Maidan.)

 

For a couple of diametrically opposed takes on Lutsenko and his relationship with Moroz, see

Весна перемагає — Мороз не відступає in Ukrayina Moloda:

http://www.umoloda.kiev.ua/number/872/113/31761/

 

and for a more disillusioned/conspiratorial reading:

http://www.hw.net.ua/art.php?id=32245

 

Incidentally, did any Torontonians on this list (if there are any) catch Lutsenko and Stets'kiv when they visited Toronto for the SKU congress last month? Any impressions to share?

 

Thanks,

Adrian Ivakhiv

 

p.s. If anyone knows of a listserv that follows/discusses Ukrainian media (besides this one) please share info.