Viktor Posudnevsky meets Ukrainian Natalya Pakshina, who is determined to bring Russian ballet to Ireland with her dance school Solnishko
As the summer fruit season draws to a close, thousands of migrant pickers are preparing to go home – and Nikola Tukarchikova and Michaela Romanova from Slovakia were among them. This was the girls’ first summer in Ireland, spent picking strawberries
THE IMMIGRANT soccer team D-Pils FC have pulled out of the Leinster Football League (LFL) in protest at the FAI’s ruling against their claim of assault by members of another club.
Almost 75 per cent of decisions taken by the Equality Tribunal in the first three months of 2009 were not in favour of claimants, many of which are immigrants. From January to the end of March 2009, the tribunal made a total of 45 decisions. But only 12
Budding real estate moguls Max and Irina Ursu haven’t let things get them down despite the downturn in the property market, they tell Viktor Posudnevsky
There was not a Topol missile nor a Kalashnikoff in sight as Ireland’s Russian-speaking community came together for Victory Day, writes Viktor Posudnevsky
Nastasia Vashko has beaten thousands of other contestants to land the title role in the Irish version of hit musical Annie.
Polish democratic icon Lech Wałęsa was paid to take part in the convention of Libertas political party last week, according to reports in the Polish press.
Lithuanians and Poles living in Ireland got together to celebrate one of the biggest events in their shared history last weekend in sporting fashion.
Life is hell for families on a besieged Tallaght estate where thugs flout the law - and local immigrants are directly in the firing line. VIKTOR POSUDNEVSKY reports
A Dublin soccer team has been dismissed from a regional league after a member was accused of assaulting a Latvian player.
Viktor Posudnevsky meets Anna Machowska, who has taken the recession as an opportunity to expand her English language school for immigrants
A LATVIAN soccer team will quit playing in an Irish league if xenophobic and thuggish behaviour is not stamped out.
BLATANT discrimination faces eastern European medical professionals in Ireland, according to a Lithuanian doctor based here.
A social networking website aiming to unite all Africans living abroad has been launched in Ireland.
As recession bites, the attitude of the Irish to immigrants is showing a change for the worse. But for the presenters of NewsTalk’s Global Village, that only makes their work more necessary. Viktor Posudnevsky joins them in the studio
Lithuanian to join bandmates in Moscow for Eurovision 2009
Michael Auret, who for more than 20 years fought for justice in Zimbabwe, is now peacefully retired in Co Offaly. Viktor Posudnevsky speaks to the man regarded as an icon by Zimbabweans the world over