Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№1, (2007)

16.01.2007 - 00:00

Goal: 100 million tons of coal

It was nearly New Year’s Eve when Minister of Coal Industry Serhii Tulub held a teleconference with the directors of the industry’s enterprises, summarized results, and set objectives for 2007. “...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

Creating an imperial elite

(Continued from The Day, No. 42, 2006)The Cossacks were a considerable regional problem for Nikolai Repnin. Harsh measures were used to resettle them to the south in 1820. The Cossack settlers left...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

“Spanish night”

The concert at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine featured both popular and little known musical works by Spanish composers. The “Music at Christmas” cycle is a key feature of the charitable...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

This week in history

Jan. 16 1918. The Small Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic enacts a law creating a volunteer army. 1919. Ukraine’s temporary workers’-peasants’ government issues an edict on the nationalization...
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Lesia Ukrainka’s church burns down

Christmas Day 2007 will forever remain a tragic date for the residents of the village of Voloshky, situated near Kovel in the Volyn region. That day the unique wooden church of St. Nicholas, built in...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

“Happy holidays”

This is how the ceramic artist, Vira Tomashevska, calls her private show at the Ivan Kavaleridze Museum-Studio. Her works are pictures composed (“made up”) of separate elements, each of which is a...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

“You will live”

They gathered in Potocki Palace in Lviv to mark the 15th anniversary of Piet Spijkers’s work in Ukraine. It was a low-key but very heartwarming reception, where many words of gratitude were expressed...
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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec did not die — he changed his lifestyle

Ukrainian book lovers should hurry and buy this book that can be read in the morning and evening; you can open it and read an aphorism, drink from a bottomless well of wisdom, and leave home feeling...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

What’s the roundtable’s topic now?

The Communist Petro Symonenko’s cherished dream has finally come true. Today the Ukrainian president is actually a figurehead, so one does not have to bother about impeachment. Yulia Tymoshenko says...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

Nose to the wind

Training a rescue dog, teaching it to rescue, not just find a victim of a disaster, is easier said than done. These dogs are trained to do more than just race after a criminal and capture him, or...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

Roman Catholics are being offended in Dnipropetrovsk region

The Head of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia diocese of Roman Catholic Church, Bishop Stanislav Padevsky applied to the European Ombudsman, the FRG Ambassador to Ukraine and the Pope’s nuncio with an open letter...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

Oil vs. “Friendship”

Wars, including gas and oil ones, can and must be won professionally — or lost in the extreme case. President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus appears to have mastered this art. He has been quoted as...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

No “right” to land

Last week the Ukrainian parliament surmounted the president’s veto on the law to extend the moratorium on the sale of agricultural lands until 2008. Out of 438 parliamentarians, 367 voted in favor of...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

Steven PIFER: “It does not serve Ukraine’s interests when political infighting carries over into the foreign policy arena”

Steven Pifer has held various diplomatic posts, including the office of US Ambassador to Ukraine. He left the diplomatic service in 2004 and is now Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and...
16.01.2007 - 00:00

20,000 hryvnias barely scraped up

Every day three children are diagnosed with cancer in Ukraine. Specialists say there is no proper equipment or expensive drugs in children’s cancer wards. But there is a way out of this situation:...

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