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Putting on the avoirdupois like nobody's business
Eared Beast Grasped A Crustacean (1983) The headless drake with the cormorant beak wearing the purple blouse has been removed from the playground in front of the President’s Office. The smiling red cat with human jaws wearing a blue crown and lilac intubated lion have also disappeared, along with all the other animals in the bestiary, including the yellow eared beast grasping a crustacean.
The installation was inspired by the works of Mariya Prymachenko, a folk master of Ukrainian decorative painting. Sorry see it go.
In other news, the sensitive puppy-dog man with the gruff exterior on November 23 said during a podcast, titled “How to build independent media in Ukraine,” that if it hadn’t been for the Kyiv Post in 2014, Ukraine might not exist today.
“[W]hile I wish the world would learn Ukrainian, the reality is that this is still largely an English-speaking world. There are very few of our voices… We knocked down the argument that it was a U.S.-financed coup. That was bullshit. I’m sorry for the language, but we were there every single day during the revolution. We stayed our ground until the very, very end. We didn’t know how it was going to turn out…
The depressing hour-long chit chat about the “commodity” of news content was hosted by the Atlantic Council.
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Blast From the Past. Almost forgot. Today we mark the 25th anniversary of the Russia-Lukashenko putsch in Minsk. I was at this press conference, which followed talks between former Parliament Speaker Semyon Sharetsky and Alexander Lukashenko, mediated by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdyn, Russian Federation Council head Yegor Stroyev and Russian Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev.
cf. Before the Coup