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Europa: Ukrainian city wants to reclaim its past Richard Bernstein International Herald Tribune THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2005 LVIV, Ukraine Beautiful but poor is a common shorthand description of this city of 800,000 people in western Ukraine, and it takes only a few hours here to sense the accuracy of the phrase. Lviv, which was once as European as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and wishes to be part of Europe again, is not in Europe, at least not as defined by the border of the European Union, though it is a mere 70 kilometers from here. This is the periphery. Here is...

Lviv Municipal Council Decides To Open Memorial To Polish And Ukrainian Soldiers On June 24 Monday, June 13 2005 The Lviv municipal council has set June 24 as the date for opening a memorial to soldiers of the Ukrainian Halychyna Army and Polish soldiers buried at Lviv's Lychakivske cemetery during the 1918-1920 period. Out of the Lviv municipal council's 90 deputies, 66 voted in favor of this decision. The Lviv municipal council invited President Viktor Yuschenko and Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski to attend the opening ceremony. The Lviv municipal council also amended its decision No. 770 of September 2000 to...

Chances to resolve dispute over historic Polish cemetery in Lviv 2005-04-12, 10:45 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko promised to resolve the controversy over the restoration of a Polish cemetery in Lviv. Called the Young Eagles Cemetery, it is a place where Polish youths who defended the then Polish city against Ukrainians in 1918, are buried. For Poles, the cemetery is a symbol of patriotic commitment, while Ukrainians see it as a symbol of oppression. The Lviv city authorities have not agreed to restore the cemetery to its original shape as the Polish side would like to do.