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		<title>Ukrainian will, Carpathian pride and the summer of ’69</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some 30,000 Ukrainians descended on Moscow in Aug 1969 and sang folk songs in the heart of the Soviet empire. FC Karpaty supporters celebrated the regional second-division club's surprising place in Soviet soccer history.]]></description>
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		<title>Canada &#124; Far west of the Carpathians, Ukraine unites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Football universes exist in parallel. Such was the case in May 08 when <a href="http://www.ukraineunited.com/" target="_blank">Ukraine United</a> and Shakhtar played a friendly, not in the motherland, but on an artificial pitch at Ontario Soccer Centre.]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine &#124; Near Chernobyl, the &#8216;football forest&#8217; designed to radiate life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-two years ago, more than 1,000 buses commandeered from Kyiv rumbled north toward the company town of Pripyat to evacuate its 50,000 residents. By sunset on 27 Apr 1986, as Chernobyl reactor no. 4 burned, in one soldier's recollection, like a "beautiful blue fire," the town was empty.

Left behind in the silence: a newly built football stadium sitting just to the north of a bright yellow Ferris wheel, a gift from Soviet authorities in commemoration of the upcoming May Day holiday.]]></description>
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		<title>Shostakovich: &#8216;Football is the ballet of the masses&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/shostakovich-football-is-the-ballet-of-the-masses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reflection about connections between gridiron football and ballet reminds us of the 1930 ballet <a href="http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.570217-18#" target="_blank"><em>The Golden Age</em></a> (Op. 22), by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich" target="_blank"><strong>Dmitri Shostakovich</strong></a>.]]></description>
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