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, (2008)

15.01.2008 - 00:00

Ukraine’s choices and Europe

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously observed that a man cannot step into the same river twice. By this he meant that the passage of time inevitably changes both the character of the man and the...
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“Our Christmas”

“Our Christmas” is the name of a new creative project carried out under the aegis of the President of Ukraine (the idea belongs to Taras Chubai, the leader of the rock group Plach Yeremii; staged by...
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How to reform Ukraine’s medical system

A roundtable recently took place at Kyiv City Hall, attended by the chief doctors of the capital’s main medical institutions. The head of the standing commission of the Kyiv City Council on health...
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Central Clinical Hospital issues SOS

“No to raids on medicine!”, “We won’t let the heart of Kyiv’s medicine be destroyed!”, “SOS-this hospital is in danger!” were the messages on the placards held by the personnel of the Central...
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What do “influential people” influence?

A New Year without old problems and the chance to start with a clean slate: that is what both ordinary people and those in power really want. But it is futile to expect external changes without...
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My year — my Day

Yurii USHCHAPOVSKY, associate professor at the Department of Economic Theory at Zhytomyr State Technological University 1. “The year 2007 was very uneven, and I remember it because of the...
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India: forever in my heart

Delhi at night greeted our plane with drizzling rain and mist, which reminded us of the past Ukrainian autumn. Then we headed for the state of Kerala. Translated from the local Malayalam language, it...
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The OSCE dimension

On Jan. 1, 2008, Finland took over the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. One of the first visits of the Finnish foreign minister was to Ukraine. What are...
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The 2008 budget: second try

Ukraine’s main financial document has been adopted. But the continuation of the budgetary soap opera is still ahead. This week the group tasked with introducing changes and additions to the 2008...
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Postmodern Neo-Cynicism, its adepts, slaves, and victims

“Neo-Cynicism cometh. I do not exist in it.” Lina KOSTENKO What prompted me to critique Ukrainian postmodernism was the emergence of this phenomenon on the pages of various Ukrainian publications,...
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Students are the first to become Euro-aware

Opened on the initiative of two foundations, Suspilnist and Europe XXI, Euro-Atlantic University is supported by the Journalism Institute at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, the...
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Cultural and temporal phenomena

There are 64 nominees for the Shevchenko Prize this year, compared to more than 30 in 2007. Among the most prominent nominees are the conductor Vasyl Vasylenko and stage director Vasyl Vovkun (for...
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A great martyr for science

Mykhailo Kravchuk is a celebrated algebraist of our century; his mathematical talent and contribution to mathematical science are great and inimitable. Mykola BOHOLIUBOV These words were spoken by...
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New constitution on the way in 2008

Just before the New Year celebrations, on Dec. 27, President Yushchenko established the National Constitutional Council to draw up a new version of the Constitution of Ukraine. A unique political...
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Leonid KRAVCHUK: “We stand a good chance of going to the presidential elections under the slogan of joint reforms”

Even though it is too early to assess the performance of the new coalition cabinet, the first decisions handed down by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, her first statements, declarations, and edicts...

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