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'Money-culture is ruining Kiev'
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Kiev
Well, this was a fine one -- the story of my fellow Yank Robert Fletcher, who'd been making a living hiring himself out in Ukraine, where I live, as a 'millionaire mentor' -- that is, someone who could teach strivers from Sumy and Dniprodzerzhinsk how to get rich, for a reported fee of about $3,000 a head.
Fletcher, I read in the news here, had been arrested trying to cross into Russia using a fraudulent passport, and he was the greatest thing I'd seen in a while: a mass...
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'Money-culture is ruining Kiev'
The Spectator
; ... reported fee of about $3,000 a head. Fletcher, I read in the news here, had been arrested trying to cross into Russia using a fraudulent ... a beach resort on the Azov Sea, a body of water that made the news in November after a hurricane cracked open some tankers, fouling ...
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The Soul of a New Kiev; In Ukraine's Lively Capital, Lingering Sovietism vs. Old-World Romance
The Washington Post
; Sage travelers say that one glance of a city can capture its soul, but I never believed it until I visited Kiev. My glance came unexpectedly, as I arrived by overnight train from Moscow. Sipping my morning tea, riding past birch forests that go on for longer than "Anna Karenina," I wiped away sleep
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Can't Stand D.C. Traffic? You Should See Kiev.
The Washington Post
; ... percent here from last September to this. About 60,000 new cars were registered in Kiev this October alone, according to the Unian news agency, bloating a total that Ukraine's Emergency Ministry puts at 1.5 million -- and the number is expected to grow by a million ...
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How Spurs finally got 11m hitman Rebrov ADRIAN CURTIS analyses how Tottenham's record signing of international striker Sergei Rebrov was finally completed after hours of painstaking negotiations with officials from Dynamo Kiev
Evening Standard - London
; IT WAS the moment that Tottenham Hotspur got the feeling the Sergei Rebrov deal would go through. There was still a lot of hard negotiating to be done and the Dynamo Kiev hierarchy were holding out for a 12 million transfer fee. But what about the dodgy knee? The question was concerning everyone
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Kiev evolving into a modern capital
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Kiev evolving into a modern capital By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press Sunday, October 20, 2002 Kiev, Ukraine -- This hilly metropolis on the Dnipro River is as much about monasteries and monuments to 1,200-year-old heroes as it is about flexible Internet rates and fast food. It's about embracing
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From pork to kapores: transformations in religious practice among the Jews of late imperial Kiev.
The Jewish Quarterly Review
; SCHOLARSHIP ON THE HISTORY of imperial Russian Jewry has paid scant attention to the religious practices of Jews, often assuming a monolithic traditionalism on the part of most Jews alongside a widespread secularism among acculturated, nationalist, and socialist Jews. Several isolated articles have
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The Pope gets cold shoulder from church leaders in Kiev
The Independent - London
; POPE JOHN PAUL II paid tribute yesterday at the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev where the Nazis murdered tens of thousands of Jews in 1941 - one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust. The Pope had earlier referred to "the murderous frenzy" of the Germans towards the Jews of Ukraine. Standing by the trees
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Kiev - Kyiv - Kijow
Polish-American Journal
; When I got on the LOT Airlines flight from Kiev to Warsaw after spending four days in Ukraine, I half expected to be greeting with "welcome to Europe." There is much in Kiev that is new and better since Ukraine gained independence in 1991, but the old system and the old psychology hang on, with all
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Independence Brings Out Kiev's Ironies
Chicago Sun-Times
; KIEV, Ukraine Sage travelers say that one glance of a city can capture its soul, but I never believed it until I visited Kiev. My glance came unexpectedly, as I arrived by overnight train from Moscow. Sipping my morning tea, riding past birch forests that go on for longer than Anna Karenina, I
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Driven to distraction in Kiev Foreign cars make traffic police see dollar signs; any car is a challenge to navigate
The Boston Globe
; KIEV -- It was the fourth time in a week we'd been pulled over by the police, and by now the routine was familiar. An officer motioned us to the curb. He outlined the alleged infraction, which ranged from making an illegal U-Turn, to speeding, twice, to having front tires that didn't match.
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