Neeka's Backlog

Yulia Tymoshenko has been sentenced to seven years in prison today. In the seven years since Maidan, the folks running this country - all ...

Had a lovely date with Kyiv. For much of the past three weeks, it was a demented city, and I'm glad that it has managed to pull itself t...

Also yesterday evening, riot police clashed with the people from the pro-Yulia camp, spraying tear gas at the protesters at some point (Ukra...

Yesterday evening, when Yulia Tymoshenko was expected to emerge from the court, her fans gathered to greet her and ended up blocking the pas...

To imagine what it's been like to live and work on Khreshchatyk for much of this past summer and for much of this month, please watch th...

Yulia Tymoshenko's trial - its final stage - has resumed today, and I spent some time in the evening walking around the pro-Yulia camp...

How wonderful it is to find myself at a place where there's plenty of fresh air, no politics, very few people, no noise, lots of flowers...

Most protesters at yesterday's rally by afgantsy , chernobyltsy and others looked like people who probably didn't own compute...

One of the many things I totally do not understand about Kyiv is why the Chocolate House in Lypky has been so neglected for the past 30 year...

I keep thinking of Kyiv's size, of the fact that there are nearly as many people in this city as in the whole country of Croatia. An...

The pro-Yulia camp - and a Georgi Gongadze Sep. 16 memorial poster - on Khreshchatyk: The anti-Yulia camp (all those flags on the other ...

Kyiv in mid-September...

To make the transition from the wonderful island of Vis to the Besarabka nuthouse a bit more bearable, I've decided to re-read Gerald ...

(I really like Storify.com - helps make Twitter a little bit less of an abyss and a maze...) View "Besarabka: Psychological Warfare...

It took Vimeo forever to process these seven minutes of the cacophony outside, filmed from inside our room in the early afternoon, with a ...