- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn passed away on Sunday due to heart failure at the age of 89. The Guardian has an article noting his final years fantazing Putin as the new czar, denying genocide. President Yushchenko sent his condolences.
- Students in Kyiv launched a blunt protest against Ukraine’s booming brothel business – by dressing as prostitutes and telling sex tourists to get lost. The demonstration is tied to fears held amongst many Ukrainians that the growing sex tourism industry is tarnishing their country.
- The death toll for the flood in Western Ukraine has hit 38.
- Four thousand people attended this year’s CNUF in Dauphin, Manitoba! Also that weekend was the Mill Race Festival in Cambridge, Ontario.
- Alyona Bondarenko occupies the fourth place in the list of top 50 sexiest female athletes competing at the Beijing Olympics.
- Ukraine and Poland are still hanging on to their chance to host the 2012 Eurocup.
- Operatives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have been actively cooperating with the Israeli counterparts, protecting Jews and steadfastly watching students from the Muslim countries in the name of “terrorism”
- Some great music from Ukrainian composers was featured in Ottawa on Saturday.
- Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly in talks to play Vladimir Lenin in a new movie. The picture will be directed by Russian moviemaker Alexander Der Borodyansky, who insists the actor is perfect for the part because of his striking physical resemblance to the communist politician, who died in 1924.
- Lastly, Canada has a new ambassador to Ukraine!
