aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Will there be a Ukrainian Freedom & IndependenceActivists' Memorial Park in Kyiv?

["Adrian J. Ivakhiv" <aivakhiv@uvm.edu>]

Dear colleagues / ?????? ??????,

Please read and pass on the following Open Letter from Ukrainian  
Environmental Activists, addressed to Ukrainian diaspora intellectuals  
and concerning the growing threat to Kyiv's status as a "green  
capital" and historical city, and especially to the so-called  
Park-Memorial in Honour of Ukraine's Freedom and Independence  
Fighters, which President Kuchma had announced is to be developed in  
left-bank Kyiv.

If you agree with the letter, please sign it and pass it on. After  
every five names, please forward the list to vasyliuk@gmail.com.




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