{"id":2049,"date":"2014-03-09T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T17:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russianclubhk.org\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2015-12-12T17:10:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T17:10:02","slug":"article-about-the-russian-ball-2014-in-scmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.russianclubhk.org\/en\/article-about-the-russian-ball-2014-in-scmp\/","title":{"rendered":"Article about The Russian Ball 2014 in SCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source “South China Morning Post”<\/a><\/p>

Hong Kong’s Ukrainians rally against Russian invasion, then join Russia ball<\/h1>

Members of Hong Kong’s tiny Ukrainian community made a public plea for their country to be left in peace yesterday, on one of the biggest days in the social calendar for the city’s Russian speakers.<\/p>

Some 38 Ukrainians and a handful of participants from Turkey, the United States and Canada took part in a two-hour rally in Queen’s Road Central to protest against Russian involvement in the country.<\/p>

Russian troops were deployed to Crimea after the ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych last month.<\/p>

“It was brilliant. I was so happy to meet so many other Ukrainians in Hong Kong,” rally organiser Oksana Charlton said. “It was a very peaceful demonstration.”<\/p>

Charlton, who moved to Hong Kong with her English husband, said: “We had the flag and we wore flowers in our hair, which is tradition. Some people also wore the vyshyvka<\/i>, our traditional Ukrainian shirt.”<\/p>

Despite the geopolitical hostility back home, Odessa-born Charlton said there was no talk of politics when she attended the Russian Ball in Causeway Bay last night.<\/p>

The event is one of the biggest occasions on the social calendar for Hong Kong’s Russian speakers, including many Ukrainians. The Russian consul general, Vladimir Kalinin, gave a speech at the ball but made no mention of Ukraine.<\/p>

Charlton said organisers had asked her not to bring up the political situation, a request she honoured.<\/p>

Earlier in the week, Charlton and a group of seven other Ukrainians handed a petition to the Russian consulate calling for a peaceful solution to the situation in their homeland.<\/p>

Russia claims troops moved into Crimea to protect Russian citizens there, but the manoeuvre has led to concerns the region and areas of eastern Ukraine could secede.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Ukraine row casts a pall, but not over ball<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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