Viktor Posudnevsky

‘Ballet is a great art form’

Last update: 16:00 | 10.09.09 | © Metro Éireann

Viktor Posudnevsky meets Ukrainian Natalya Pakshina, who is determined to bring Russian ballet to Ireland with her dance school Solnishko

Berry pickers bid Ireland farewell - till next summer

Last update: 13:37 | 03.09.09 | © Metro Éireann

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

Latvians leave Leinster League in protest

Last update: 12:33 | 28.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

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.

Equality Tribunal rejects three quarters of claims in ’09

Last update: 12:06 | 14.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

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

Ursus’ cloud has a silver lining

Last update: 12:04 | 14.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

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

Victory Day brings the world together

Last update: 11:58 | 14.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

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’s star is shining bright as she takes lead role in Annie

Last update: 00:43 | 07.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

Nastasia Vashko has beaten thousands of other contestants to land the title role in the Irish version of hit musical Annie.

Wałęsa ‘was paid to address’ Libertas event

Last update: 00:39 | 07.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

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.

A sporting celebration for Ireland’s Poles and Lithuanians

Last update: 00:37 | 07.05.09 | © Metro Éireann

Lithuanians and Poles living in Ireland got together to celebrate one of the biggest events in their shared history last weekend in sporting fashion.

‘They are terrorising the neighbourhood’

Last update: 19:12 | 19.03.09 | © Metro Éireann

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

Team expelled from league following pitch assault

Last update: 19:11 | 19.03.09 | © Metro Éireann

A Dublin soccer team has been dismissed from a regional league after a member was accused of assaulting a Latvian player.

‘Why are people so negative?’

Last update: 19:09 | 19.03.09 | © Metro Éireann

Viktor Posudnevsky meets Anna Machowska, who has taken the recession as an opportunity to expand her English language school for immigrants

‘F**king foreigners’ are ‘fair game’

A LATVIAN soccer team will quit playing in an Irish league if xenophobic and thuggish behaviour is not stamped out.

Eastern European docs ‘discriminated against’ - claim

BLATANT discrimination faces eastern European medical professionals in Ireland, according to a Lithuanian doctor based here.

‘African Facebook’ site goes online in Ireland

A social networking website aiming to unite all Africans living abroad has been launched in Ireland.

Radio on a different wavelength

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

Asta hits hard for Ireland

Lithuanian to join bandmates in Moscow for Eurovision 2009

The man who stood up to Mugabe

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

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