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Sorry if my recent column made you uncomfortable, it was intended only to be funny, I enjoy your column a lot. While I'm here, I'd like to ask the question everyone keeps asking. How the heck is Yuriy pronounced, does the final "y" matter at all or is it just like Yuri?

— Smiling Jack

Yuriy the first comment I made on newsvine was on one of your articles. By the way, how can you be a libertarian communist?

— matthiasgoodley

I heard on NPR today that Kim Jong Il was originally named Yuri. I know it's not quite the same, but I realized that if anyone deserved to be a power-mad, renegade dictator, it had to be our own Yuriy Bilokonsky.

— spiffie

I regret to say that it just clicked in my head today that you are not the same person as Mykola. I made note of him long ago in my head as being "that smart, witty atheist guy with the name I can't pronounce," and thus when I saw your name floating around more recently, my mind went, "Hey! It's that guy!" But in fact, it was not that guy, it was this guy. Yuriy, you are awesome. The Bilokonskys are a force to be reckoned with on Newsvine, especially now that I'm aware that there are more than one of you.

Side note: How do you pronounce your name?

— Danny McGee

Yuriy makes me want to be a Bilokonsky. He cannot be placed in a box. He has an uncanny ability to open a very controversial can of worms without flaring up a non-productive gridlock in the threads. He also responds with great care (and humor and amazing speed) to most every comment left on his articles. He's no snob.

— Matthew Brennan

Yuriy is amazing, and I couldn't have made a better first friend on newsvine. I love reading everything he writes and would not be surprised if he took over the world some day. (in a very good-natured way of course)

— rumplestiltskin

he says that, but then he puts his comments as the first thing on his column | | \ /

— rumplestiltskin

Not as big of an @!$%# in person as online.

— Yuriy Bilokonsky

My brother! You're cooler than I was at your age.

— stolte-sawa

Well done your last article was great hehehehe

— Babel Fish

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