Reports of the pro-Russian separatist fighting in southeastern Ukraine have included news of a website that is now managed by an “action group of journalists who are engaged in creating a Union of Journalists of the Donetsk People’s Republic.”
They have not told us that Sergei Prokofiev was born in Donetsk and that its international airport is named after him.
Eric Koch’s new book, New Beginnings, was launched on September 20. The book is available from 
We should then also consider the omission of the illustrious Juliette Augustina Cavazzi (née Sysak), another musical muse of Ukrainian origin. It was she who inspired us after “Hockey Night in Canada’ just a few years ago.