Happy Birthday, Slobids'kyj Krai

This afternoon, Yulia and I represented the Journalists' Initiative Association at a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Slobids'kyj Krai newspaper. This is the official oblast government newspaper, and the oblast threw a big party. It was held at the Cultural Center at Karazin National University and featured local celebrities, government officials, singers, dancers, performers and a lot of food and drink.

We gave Volodimir Revenko, the paper's editor, a couple of books: one about journalism (something I picked up from the Knight program about international news reporting), and the other about advertising (by the legendary U.S. ad executive David Ogilvy; I found a Russian translation at a Kharkiv bookstore).

Here are a few pictures; you'll find more in my Picasa album.