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

№10, (2010)

18.02.2010 - 00:00

A cultural pause

For the first time since independence students of higher educational establishments will be able to study the history of Ukrainian culture. Although the curriculum has already been developed, it is...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

This day in history

1918: Local history museum is founded in Cherkasy. 1918: The Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey) resume hostilities after Soviet Russia refuses to sign a peace treaty....
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Order for Vechornytsi

Ambassador of France to Ukraine Jacques Faure presented Oleh Skrypka with the honorary Ordre des Palmes Academiques which was founded by Emperor Napoleon I in 1808. This order is given to educators...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

EVENT

Berlusconi welcomes beautiful female immigrantsItalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stated that his country welcomes immigrants, but only if they are beautiful girls, as reported by France Presse...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Serhii BRATKOV: Art allows an artist to transcend his own humanity

Born in 1960, Serhii Bratkov graduated from a local arts school and Polytechnical Institute. He is a co-founder (together with Borys Mykhailov and Serhii Solonsky) of the art group, The Flying...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Unsuccessful hetman

The lives of historical figures who live or lived at the time of ruination cannot be easy and simple. Speaking about the epoch of the Ruin in 1657–76 we can see some convincing and illustrative...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Thought is what really matters

It would be wrong to say that Ukrainian television is hopeless. From time to time, it produces something worthwhile out of its maze of channels – but this is strictly regimented and mostly shown at...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

My beloved unhappy mother a murderer?

ODESA — “Tomochka, do you remember anything from your past, I mean that horrible famine [Holodomor] seven years ago?” my mother asked me back in 1940.“I do, Mom, I remember everything,” I replied. My...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Ukraine’s Ostroh and Kyiv-Mohyla Academies refuse to take part in Top 200 Project

For three years running experts at UNESCO’s Chair in Technical Higher Education, Applied Systems Analysis and Informatics [established in 1999 at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

The magic of strokes

The exhibit of selected graphic works from the collection of Ukraine’s National Museum of Arts lasted for a month. Den (No. 232, Dec. 22, 2009) already drew its readers’ attention to this interesting...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Israel will introduce a visa waiver regime for Ukrainians

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has commissioned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to start negotiations with Ukraine concerning technical and judiciary aspects of a visa waiver regime. The...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Stone by stone

The Lutheran Evangelical Church of Saint Paul is one of the biggest historical monuments in Odesa. Local people call it simply kirkha and often add the epithet “long-suffering.” The construction of...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Ukrainian universities lack world-academic reputation

Universities have been ranked according to established methodologies for over a quarter of a century (the first such rankings were presented in the US News & World Report I 1983). The past few...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Avant-garde embroidery

Ukrainian avant-garde is scattered over the world. The works of the artists representing this genre have largely “settled” in foreign museum collections, private collections, or were unmercifully...
18.02.2010 - 00:00

Parajanov, known and unknown

As a Georgian-born Armenian who “served a sentence in a Soviet prison for Ukrainian nationalism,” Sergei Parajanov took his vengeance on Ukraine “with his love.” He passed away 20 years ago, but...

Pages