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Article: DATELINE IVANO-FRANKIVSK: A celebration of independence
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
- Article date:
- November 24, 1996
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Helen Smindak
Ukrainian Weekly, The
11-24-1996
DATELINE IVANO-FRANKIVSK: A celebration of independence.
For two days last August, the citizens of western Ukraine's second largest city reveled in the ecstasy of Ukraine's fifth anniversary as a free nation, setting aside worries about unemployment, unpaid pensions, inflation and the lack of hot water.
Thousands of residents, many of them in embroidered shirts, and a clutch of visitors from the United States and Canada joined civic and regional officials at a viche (rally) outside the regional administration building on the morning of August 24, During the afternoon, they strolled through the streets of the town center, browsing through crafts ...
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