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News from and about Ukraine & Ukrainians: Ukrainian Community Press Releases
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BRAMA, August 25, 2000, 1:00pm EDT
Kyiv celebrates Independence Day
- ©Morgan Williams, 8/24/00
A banner on Khreshchatyk proclaims"Independence Day has entered our flesh and blood and our very being. The President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma." |
- ©Morgan Williams, 8/24/00
Independence Day totem pole on Khreshchatyk.
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- ©Morgan Williams, 8/24/00
Kyievans pay their respects at a monument to the great historian and one-time
leader of the Ukrainian National Republic (1918), Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866-1934).
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- ©Morgan Williams, 8/24/00
(left) There goes that "Slavutych" balloon again ...(right) Three Plastuny (scouts) joing the celebrations on Andriivsky Uzviz; St. Andrews Church in the background. |
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