Article: DATELINE IVANO-FRANKIVSK: A celebration of independence

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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