Harry Potter made the news again, this time with the most recent translation into Ukrainian. Not long ago, HP made the news because of the throngs of “netroot” fans doing mass unauthorized translations of this popular book. Now it’s making news because of a current and new translation was the first in the Russian states. Read more. And if you want to see photos from the release party, click here.

In an attempt to win over extra readers, the A-Ba-Ba-Ha-La-Ma-Ha publishing house once released “Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix” – the fifth installment in the famous series – considerably earlier than Russian publishers, which made the book an absolute bestseller in Ukraine. The same thing happened with the sixth novel.

But with the latest seventh and final installment, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” Ukrainian publishers literally beat everyone, having officially released the Ukrainian translation of the book on Sept. 25, which made it the very first translation of the book to be released in a foreign language in the whole world.

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