“I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.” PeopleFirstsStatesInterestPolicyPartnersRussiaRhetoricStrategicUkrainian Author:Viktor Yanukovych
“Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.” WorldNeedsCitiesMillionsStreetsResourcesEmbraceCompetitionAround The WorldClientsCompetitorsUkrainian Author:Victor Pinchuk
“I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.” FirstsCountryTodayAbleHousePartyMembersDeterminedChineseMinistersConsiderationPrimeItalianCitizenshipVery HappyPrime MinisterDutchUkrainianHouse Of CommonsScandinavians Author:John Diefenbaker
“We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.” BelieveCountryRunningSpeakLevelsDealsAuthorityCurrentsRefuseMandatesUkrainian Author:Vladimir Putin
“Crimea has always been and remains Russian, as well as Ukrainian, Crimean-Tatar, Greek (after all, there are Greeks living there) and German - and it will be home to all of those peoples. As for state affiliation, the people living in Crimea made their choice; it should be treated with respect, and Russia cannot do otherwise. I hope that our neighbouring and distant partners will ultimately treat this the same way, since in this case, the highest criteria used to establish the truth can only be the opinion of the people themselves.” PeopleWayShouldWellsMadeStatesHomeUsedChoicesOpinionCasesHighestTreatsRemainsPartnersRussiaTreatedGreekCriteriaUkrainianAffiliationCrimea Author:Vladimir Putin
“I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.” LeadershipFiguresWeaponsArmyResponsibleSoldierHinderUkrainian Author:Vladimir Putin
“President Vladimir Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and he has signed recently, we, the United States, and Europe as a whole, have to stand with Ukraine at this moment. Ukraine needs our financial assistance and support as it pursues reforms and even in the face, in the face of this military onslaught.” NeedsCountryStatesWholeMomentsPastFacesPeacePresidentUnitedUnited StatesSupportPlansMilitaryEuropeFinancialPursueReformAgreementTroopsAssistancePutinUkraineCountrysideUkrainianFinancial Assistance Author:Joe Biden
“You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey, the so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing. Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.” LittlesWholeHumorFunnyOrderThreeBitsLittle BitPhilosophicalRemainsLegsEightPityBitterConfusedHuntingSpidersPreyConvincingSquirrelsVenomUkrainianSamaritans Author:Bill Bailey
“Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.” ImportantHolyEatingCatholicYeahMeatHolidayRitualBakingUkrainianEating MeatHoly Days Author:Vera Farmiga
“I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.” WantLawCompanyReturnPercentEightNinetyUkraineUkrainianPrivatizationNinety Eight Author:Viktor Yushchenko
“I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren't capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then I hope that they won't prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others.” PeopleIfsWantGivingOrderLeadershipDecisionFiguresWeaponsCapableArmyResponsibleSoldierHinderLives Of OthersUkrainian Author:Vladimir Putin
“The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.” PeopleDoeActionChoicesDecidedWestViolentUkraineUkrainian Author:Sergey Lavrov
“The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.” PeopleShouldTogetherMistakeDemocracyUkrainian Author:John F. Kerry
“The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.” ShouldLeaderPrinciplesDemocraticUnityOppositionUkrainian Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.” ThinkingWritingTryingYearsAmericaThreeLanguageInfluenceThree YearsPolishUkrainian Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre.” WayKindUseProblemWantedLeftLanguageGenreProseSpokesEditorsArtificialEditingStubbornLeft AloneAdverseUkrainianDeference Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere.” WritingMindWellsDoneHateLanguageStuffProcessMy OwnParticularProseBelongingTranslateEnglish LanguageBack And ForthAmbiguousUkrainianNumbingThanklessNot Belonging Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it into an offshore account. And on the very day that he was increasing the attacks on the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, the export sector, he was signing documents to conceal his own money offshore. So the exposé of the Panama money laundering has hit some of the dictators that America is protecting and promoting.” AmericaPresidentCompanyPaperAccountsMovedRegionsChocolateDictatorDocumentsPapersEasternPromotingUkraineSigningUkrainianPanamaOffshoreMoney Laundering Author:Michael Hudson
“I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that is the Federal Republic of Germany and France, the so-called Normandy Quartet, certainly, with close involvement of the United States, and we have intensified our dialogue on this issue), we should all be committed to the full and unconditional implementation of the agreements that were achieved in Minsk. The Minsk Agreements have to be implemented.” ThinkingShouldStatesActorsUnitedUnited StatesIssuesCrisisIncludingInternationalCommittedRussiaDialogueFranceEngagedGermanyAgreementResolutionRepublicUnconditionalInvolvementImplementationQuartetsUkrainianNormandy Author:Vladimir Putin
“There are complicated processes going on in society in the Crimea. There are problems of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian population, the Russian population, the Slavic population in general, but this is Ukraine's domestic political problem.” ProblemPoliticalProcessPopulationComplicatedUkraineUkrainianCrimea Author:Vladimir Putin
“The nationalists' coup in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in February 2014 has hugely scared 2.5 million Russian people living on Crimea. So what did we do? We have not gone to war, we have not fired, not a single person was killed. Our soldiers have merely prevented the Ukrainian troops on Crimea from impeding the freedom of expression of the people.” PeoplePersonsWarMillionsGoneExpressionSoldierScaredTroopsLiving OnFreedom Of ExpressionSingle PersonFebruaryUkrainianCoupsCrimeaKiev Author:Vladimir Putin
“At least Germany and France have recently criticized that the Ukrainian central government has limited certain parts of the autonomy regulations to three years. They were supposed to last permanently.” YearsGovernmentLastsCertainThreeFranceGermanyThree YearsRegulationAutonomyUkrainianCentral Government Author:Vladimir Putin
“The international repercussions were shattering to some extent - there is no intention to repeat operations of such kind in the future.[Viktor] Yanukovych's electoral victory clearly demonstrated that there are no pro-Russian politicians in the Ukraine, just Ukrainian politicians.” KindVictoryPoliticianIntentionInternationalOperationsRepeatsUkraineRepercussionsShatteringUkrainian Author:Garry Kasparov
“I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a Ukrainian revolution. But the idea of an American revolution does not occur to most people. And when I came down to the movement milieu seventy-five years ago, the black movement was just starting, and the war in Europe had brought into being the "Double V for Victory" [campaign]: the idea was that we ought to win democracy abroad with democracy at home. And that was the beginning of an American revolution, and most people don't recognize that.” PeopleThinkingYearsDoeIdeasWarHomeWinningBlackTermDemocracyFiveMovementRevolutionOughtVictoryEuropeYears AgoStartingCampaignsFive YearsSeventiesAmerican RevolutionUkrainianMilieuRussian Revolution Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“You can see the actions that the Russians are trying to take in eastern Ukraine. And so it's so important that we take actions to deter further Russian aggression against the Ukrainian people.” PeopleTryingImportantActionAggressionEasternUkrainian Author:Kelly Ayotte
“I'm not sure about whether Ukraine will ever be joining. As long as there's a frozen conflict on Ukrainian territory, they can't possibly join. And that's probably one of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is interested in having a frozen conflict there, so that there is no border security.” LongReasonSecurityConflictNot SureUkrainian Author:Kimberly Zisk Marten
“Putin saw the Ukrainian revolution as a challenge to him personally, and I think that's why he, in fact, over-reacted. I think his occupation of Crimea and then annexation for him was actually a mistake from Russia's point of view. And then his invasion of Eastern Ukraine was also a mistake. He imagined that he would invade Eastern Ukraine and then eventually split the country in half, and he discovered that in fact, Russian-speaking Ukrainians are not Russians, and they didn't support him.” ThinkingCountryChallengesMistakeSupportRevolutionPoint Of ViewEasternUkrainian Author:Anne Applebaum
“Putin imagined it would be different. So, like many Russian leaders before him, he imagined that Ukraine was basically Russia, but they speak with a funny accent. Actually, it's not Russia; it has a different identity. It has a very different language. Russians don't automatically understand Ukrainian. And, in particular, the way Ukraine has developed over the last two decades is different from the way Russia has developed.” DifferentSpeakLanguageLeaderIdentityUkrainian Author:Anne Applebaum
“Trump wants to make peace; he wants to see Ukrainian conflict resolved; he wants to see Ukraine get its territory back. It's crystal clear. With Putin, I think we see glimmers; we see a reason to think maybe they do. But they have to make the choice to do that, and they can very well choose the opposite.” ThinkingReasonChoicesConflictMaking PeaceUkrainian Author:Kurt Volker
“My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.” RunningSchoolPastNightPassionSportsSecretSceneHigh SchoolExcitingPunkAthleticAdrenalineGloomyPunk RockUkrainian Author:Eugene Hutz
“Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.” PeopleHas BeensRealClassMiddleChangedFilledPrisonCriminalsMiddle ClassJailRepresentativesRebelliousUkrainian Author:Yulia Tymoshenko
“The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.” KindSidesDadSilentMy DadUkrainian Author:Matt Czuchry
“Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.” PeopleWantStatesSeriousOrdinaryAbuseImpactRussiaOfficialsTolerateOrdinary PeopleEyebrowsUkraineAbuse Of PowerUkrainian Author:Garry Kasparov
“Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.” GivingYearsTwoMotherFatherWaterMemoriesFourOur LivesSixDiedSurfaceGhostThirtyKicksTwo YearsEightyGlamorousBlondeUkrainianFluffyGrenadeMother DiedBacksidesChurningMurky Water Author:Marina Lewycka
“My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.” ChildrenMotherCanadaUkrainian Author:Bob Schaffer
“Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.” SituationGrowingViolenceMilitaryPossibilityRevolutionLoyaltyDivisionUkrainian Author:Bob Schaffer
“I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.” AuthorityRedCrossesInternationalHumanitarianTerritoryCommitteesConsentInvolvementEntryUkrainianRed Cross Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
“Each year, members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, Parliamentarians and others commemorate the Holodomor at gatherings across the country. In doing so, we honour the memory of those who perished and the legacy of those who survived, including many who found refuge in Canada. It is by remembering the tragedies and atrocities of the past that we can equip ourselves to prevent them from happening again. That is why this national tour, which will reach Canadians of all ages and backgrounds, is an important initiative” YearsImportantCountryAgePastRememberFoundCommunityMemoriesMembersHappeningsTragedyIncludingBackgroundsLegacyCanadaHonourInitiativeRefugeSurvivedGatheringAtrocitiesUkrainianHappening Again Author:Jason Kenney
“The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.” NationsPagesConvictionEmbeddedRehabilitationUkrainian Author:Viktor Yushchenko
“Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.” KindForcePowerfulStruggleMassIndependenceAcquireGenocideScopeRepressionConcealedUkraineFamineSuppressionUkrainian Author:Leon Trotsky
“I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic, meaning the annihilation of the Ukrainian peasantry, Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian language, and history as understood by the people; to do away with Ukraine and things Ukrainian as such. The calculation was very simple, very primitive: no people, therefore, no separate country, and thus no problem. Such a policy is Genocide in the classic sense of the word.” PeopleCountryProblemHandsFoundLanguageSimplePolicyUnderstoodConvincedClassicRepublicGenocideSovietPrimitiveNo ProblemUkraineCalculationsFamineAnnihilationUkrainian Author:James Mace
“The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.” ImportantPurposeProductsTerrorNationalismConcentrationGenocideProsperousPeasantsUkraineFamineUkrainian Author:Norman Davies
“Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections” GovernmentDifficultElectionExtraordinaryDifficult TimesUkraineResignationParliamentaryUkrainian Author:Vladimir Putin
“I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.” NationsDeserveStabilityBetter LifeUkrainianGood Change Author:Viktor Yanukovych
“I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.” InspirationalStoriesFilmGrowsGrowing UpDanceCrucialUkrainianAmerican Music Author:Vera Farmiga
“I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.” ChristianGrewGrew UpMy FamilyCatholicHouseholdUkrainian Author:Vera Farmiga
“I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.” CountryBreakUnionsFolksDancerSovietTeensSoviet UnionUkrainian Author:Vera Farmiga
“I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.” PeopleKnowsFacesThank GodTypicalUkrainian Author:Neko Case