Viktor Yuschenko is blogging — not

Xeni Jardin 10:06 am Wed Jan 26, 2005

Reader Emily Fish sez:

Newly-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko is blogging! Unfortunately, I don't know Ukranian (Russian?) so I have no idea what is written here, but none the less, it's pretty impressive that such a political figure is blogging. He's even got an RSS feed!

Link to blog in Ukrainian, and Link to English language version (thanks, D.A. Fonda)

Update: …not exactly. Boing Boing reader Denis Perelyubskiy says:

This is not entirely correct. The site appears to be akin to whitehouse.gov, in that these are just the site that follows the president. press releases, opinions, news, etc. The site also summarizes and rewords the things he says at various events and press-conferences.

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