Day 800
Very blue morning.
I don’t know the guy running past my bike. At first, I thought he was the reincarnation of Evhen Budinas. On his trot back he stopped and started doing weird isometric push-ups, the type Falun Gong disciples practice downriver on the embankment where last week someone planted a row of chestnut seedlings. Dante has been unbarricaded, and the Klitschko mural really sucks. The Monument to Magdeburg Rights has been fixed up, but I was too lazy to take a picture.
The dismantlement of the monument in honor of the Pereiaslav Rada under the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People (the former Arch of Friendship of Peoples) is nearing completion. The 'Pereiaslav Rada,'or Pereiaslav Agreement, was a meeting held in the Ukrainian town of Pereiaslav in January 1654 for a ceremonial oath of allegiance of the Cossacks to the Russian Tsar.
