beyond the mountains

Party @ Pret à Café, Sept 9, 2005/Pomka in Action!!!! To illustrate and put words on the pictures, Here are the comments of Amy, a lady friend who took the time to share her impressions on the country..."Ukraine has long been a crossroads between Europe, Arabia and the Orient, and the modern Ukrainian Rus have acquired a strong admixture of Asiatic and Arabic blood: giving them an average height, slender build and fair complexion. Strictly speaking, the popular-image of beefy Slavic people are found mostly in western Ukraine (bordering on Poland, Hungary and the Slovak states) and in the north and northeast adjacent to Russia. For over a century, the official language was Russian. Since independence, Ukrainian is being promoted as the state language although Russian is still the most widespread, in the east, especially in the major cities. In villages people speak both Russian and Ukrainian. As a rule of thumb, you can manage by speaking Russian, although you may receive a bit of

Dobre Den a tous, Hai Hai caramaba, la revolucion otra vez! Indeed, since this very morning nobody knows whether President Yushenko has a real plan after his government dismissal or whether it was just a reaction against several corruption allegations accusing his entourage. In any case, this shows how fragile this "coalition" was and the desperate need for Ukraine to form an strong and transparent government backed up by an active parlement. One could expect Former Prime Minister Timoshenko to backfire very soon...revenge is a cold dish!!! As far as my team is concerned this could jeopardize much of what we have been doing here, on the editorial side as well as the advert's...we watch the news carefully and wait for postive signs. If the office decides so, I might as well stay longer... hehe! Still, I am not here to talk about politics, but rather about...ME! of course ;) I had my first opportunity to leave Kiev last week end. We (Anne-Sophie, Alex, Marte and I) jumped