"Самука"

Aletoriamente tropecei por esse anúncio no Mercado Livre: “Cd Musicas Ucranianas (samuca)”

É um cantor de Prudentópolis. Acho que nunca tinha ouvido falar antes.

Artigo interessante: “Russia hungers for Ukraine”

Pelo que noto, o pessoal que observa a situação geopolítica da Ucrânia está reclamando desde o início do governo do Obama, quando prepararam e assinaram o tal do New START, que a Rússia está cada vez mais livre para atuar em sua vizinhança sem grandes preocupações.

Nisso, gostei deste artigo que vi hoje na InfoUkes politics hoje que resume bem a situação: Russia hungers for Ukraine. Citando o mesmo artigo observado na postagem inicial:

Predictably, the Obama administration’s response to Moscow’s strategic initiative has been one of passivity. With President Obama’s recent cancellation of ballistic-missile defenses for NATO Europe, could this be another indication of the “flexibility” he promised to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the fall of 2012? Instead of focusing on Moscow’s efforts to reabsorb Ukraine in fact, if not in name, the U.S. State Department has given priority to pressuring Kiev on issues relating to democracy, human rights and the rule of law areas in which problems exist, but where Ukraine still stands head and shoulders over Mr. Putin’s Russia. Top among these is the demand that Kiev release former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for negotiating the disadvantageous gas deal with the Russians in the first place.

“Congresso dos Kobzares”

Vendo alguns vídeos do Хорея Козацька vi um comentário a respeito do “Congresso dos Kobzares.” Procurando um pouco encontrei essa descrição:

In 1934-1935 in the Charkiv Opera theater was the Congress of folk singers of Ukraine. The aim of congress was the active attraction of all folk singers to the built of socialism, build of new national ideals, etc. There were pronounced resolutions. After that later all musicians was "invited" to the Moscow to the "Congress of folk singers of all USSR" But truly there was not Congress... All musicians were taken bz the trains to the forest and shot by NKVD troops. They were shot with their small blind man's leaders. Their bodies were thrown there and all instruments were burnt. On that Congress were invited all kobzars from different regions of Ukraine. After such murders the tradition of kobzars died..

We don't know how many was killed there..but as Example before the murders in Kyivan region there were 240 kobzars who sang..after the NKVD murders there was none any more..

The tradition of kobza died before WW2. But today Ukraine tries to reborn great tradition to sing with kobza for people.

Adicionalmente: Execution of Ukrainian martyr-singers e também Reflections on a massacre.

Capas do Harry Potter em ucraniano

Aleatoriamente tropecei neste post no 9gag: Ukrainian book covers for Harry Potter by Vladislav Yerko.

Isso me lembra que alguns pronunciam "gari poter" :))