Talk:Felicity Fey

I can read Russian (and some Ukrainian, because it's similar). Is anybody interested in information about her appearance at the Ukrainian model contest and the prize she got? Her inscription at the Ukrainian university?

Unfortunately I still cannot tell if she's Ukrainian or Russian, because I do not know if a Russian native speaker can fluently speak and understand Ukrainian as well so that he/she is able to follow courses at a Ukrainian university. But it's very probable that she's Ukrainian.

Please give me links to the mentioned videos where she speaks "fluent Russian". Was this statement written by someone who understands Russian? I could listen to it. If it's not Russian, we can be almost sure that she's Ukrainian (and we'd have to correct the statement and her data as well)

Regards

Prophecy

• If you can sort all this out, please do. :) The Honorable 18:08, 17 April 2008 (EDT)

I am anxious if the girl at the Ukrainian model contest and on the university site is really her. It wasn't me who posted the links here; I only have seen different other sites and forums where everybody says she is the same girl - like here in Boobpedia. But as I'm terribly bad at recognising faces, I'd be grateful if some others had a closer look at the model contest and university pics to confirm that before I start translating the links and adding information that is based on a wrong presumption.

Thanks in advance

Prophecy 06:54, 23 April 2008 (EDT)

Alright, I'll try to sort things out regarding the ethnicity problem. I think there's an article on wikipedia on it, you can read if you want. The thing is, because Ukraine has been a part of the Russian empire and the USSR for the last 300 years, there has been a lot of cultural expansion, especially concerning the languages used. The modern country is largely bilingual, because speaking either Ukrainian or Russian alone can affect communication and cause awkward social situations.

Svitlana studies in the university which is regarded as the best in the country (I beg to differ here, but that's not important). All lectures in KNU are conducted in Ukrainian, and not knowing the language would cause difficulties in the education process. Also, in the conference transcript she speaks Ukrainian and works (or had worked, because the conference is last year material, which states that she's in her 5 year of study, what might as well have been her last) in the student newspaper, what has to follow the rules of the educational institution.

On the ethnicity. The easy way to see the Felicity has Ukrainian ancestry at least, is her second name. The second names that end in "-o" are the remnants of the Cossack Era, when they have been used as nicknames.

There has been a lot of research here concerning her identity, I'm not very up to date with it, but wold be more than glad to help if further action is required.

--F3 14:36, 3 March 2009 (EST)