ті, хто не читає англійською:
так-так-так, кляті активісти вже псують міжнародний імідж України
Kiev threatened by shadowy construction
Land grabs, shady investment and administrative finger-pointing draw grass-roots protest in Ukraine's ancient capital.
By Megan K. Stack, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 12, 2008
KIEV, UKRAINE -- There is a war raging in this graceful old city of colorful cathedrals, lush parks and cobblestone byways. It's a clanging, banging fight that threatens to slice up grassy gardens, overshadow the onion domes, break the sleepy slopes of rolling hills.
An epidemic of quasi-legal construction and shadowy land grabs is chewing on the ancient capital on the banks of the Dnieper River. Roughly 60 "scandal construction zones," as the mayor's office calls them, have turned Kiev's postage-stamp-sized downtown into a free-for-all of spanking-new skyscrapers, shady land acquisitions, grass-roots protests and fast-talking investors.