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Ukraine, Russia: Controversy over birthplace of Olympic athletes |
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| Society & You - Social Critic | |||
| Wednesday, 01 August 2012 20:27 | |||
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This post is part of our special coverage of the 2012 London Olympics . Lvov Region (RUS), Zhytomyr region (RUS), REGION OF UKRAINE (UKR), REGION OF UKRAINE (RUS): these bizarre names were used the last week of July at the official website of the London 2012 Olympics to describe the places of birth for at least a dozen [en] Ukrainian-born athletes representing the Russian Federation (eg, volleyball Khtey Taras , [ru], the judoka Vera Moskalyuk , [ru], the rhythmic gymnast Karolina Sevastyanova , [ru], rower Korovashkov Alexey , [in]). Chances are that the errors came there by accident of the Russian Olympic Committee officials responsible for filling out the forms with the biographical data of the athletes and to convey information to the organizers. With several members of the Russian team born in the Caucasus and Central Asia was also confusion [in] in their birthplaces. Many Internet users in Ukraine these confusions they found offensive but also fairly typical - a sort of Freudian slip postimperial that reflects what is often perceived in Russia as a possessive attitude toward its neighbors. In response, it launched [uk; in] a protest on the Internet:
Kostyantyn Hryshchenko [in], Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, intervened and informed of the measures taken by your office via Twitter. Below are the messages Hryshchenko [uk] for the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda.
 Screenshot of Ukrainska Pravda tweeted for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, which features a screenshot of the page with the biography of the Russian gymnast born in Ukraine in the London 2012 website.
@ Ukrpravda_news :
@ Gryshchenko :
In the end, certainly corrected some errors (although somewhat inconsistently) - while others persist. What was "REGION LVOV (RUS)" on page Khtey Taras has become "REGION LVOV ()", the "REGION Zhitomir (RUS)" from Vera Moskalyuk is now "REGION Zhitomir ()", and place initial birth of Karolina Sevastyanova of "REGION UKRAINE (UKR)" is now "UKRAINE (UKR)." Alexey Korovashkov still appears with "REGION UKRAINA (RUS)" in his biography:  Screenshot of the biography page of Alexey Korovashkov on the website of London. The error and the consequent reaction was not lost on Ukrainian Twitter. The user @ MeybeGiuliia mentioned [in] Sol Campbell, an English football player and retired, who in May thought it was not certain that England fans were in Ukraine for Euro 2012 (the fans were anyway, and after informed Campbell, through a mock protest in Donetsk [in] which had been "wrong"):
Joel Draper (@ DraperMovies) mentioned [in] the Russia-Ukraine dispute, along with two other leading up to the Olympics, including the confusion of the flags of South Korea and North Korea (GV text on the subject is here ):
JaWill (@ lgyyjaw) used the tag # olympicgeography [Olympic geography] in this summary [in] of the situation:
The user @ Voloschka wrote [in]:
Jonathan Campion (@ jonathancampion) wrote this [in], and linked with the still uncorrected page Sevastyanova Karolina's biography:
And so did [in] Nikolaus von Twickel (@ niktwick):
And Edward Lucas of The Economist (@ edwardlucas) [es]:
On Facebook, Ukrainian journalist Vakhtang Kipiani also published a screenshot [ru] of Karolina Sevastyanova page, along with the opening words of the Soviet anthem :
Kipiani's post generated nearly 70 comments and then some of them [uk, ru]. Yuri Beresten:
Oksana Stebelska:
Vlodko Tomash:
Pastukhov Oleh:
Victoria Veremiienko (in response to Oleh Pastukhov):
Karolina Sevastyanova, Russian rhythmic gymnast born in Ukraine - and the "face" of this controversy, there seems to be aware of the seriousness of the situation. In his Vkontakte page [ru], a friend published an article [ru] about the gaffe, but the comments on this post there was mention of the protest campaign with letters or the intervention of senior Ukrainian officials . Fans and friends of the athlete are mainly Sevastyanova wishing good luck, she answered with chat and discussion [ru] was generally very friendly and apolitical Zlatoslav Kalinich:
Maxim Sedoplatov:
Karolina Sevastyanova:
Natasha Kosinova:
Karolina Sevastyanova:
On Twitter, where Sevastyanova (@ Karolisha_S) has about 850 followers, wrote [ru]:
This post is part of our special coverage of the 2012 London Olympics . Posted by Veronica Khokhlova · Translated by Gabriela Garcia Calderon Orbe · View original post [en] · Comments (0)
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