Back from Kiev with photos & audio

I had a great time touring the city and meeting with journalists to learn more about the media environment. I'll post details later, but here are a few pictures. (You can find more on my Web album.)

This is the St. Sophia Cathedral, built in the 11th Century. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site.



Kyiv is a city of monuments to writers, poets and other cultural figures:



Down the street from St. Sophia is Mykhailivska Square -- the reconstruction of St. Michael's Golden Domed Cathedral. (The original was destroyed during the atheism campaigns of the 1930s.) The walls of St. Michael's feature vivid pictures:



Also on Mykhailivska Square is a memorial to millions of Ukrainians who were "victims of the famine-genocide of 1932-33."