№12, (2012)
23.02.2012 - 00:00
De-Ukrainization according to the 12-point grading scale
Happy holiday, the International Mother Language Day! Chairman of the State Television and Radio Committee of Ukraine Oleksandr Kurdinovych and Minister of Culture Mykhailo Kulyniak appealed to the...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1927: The Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR passes a decree on aid to itinerant Gypsies wishing to adopt a “settled working lifestyle.” 1944: The State Defense Committee of the USSR resolves to rebuild...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
Home for the eldest people in the world
In developed countries for several decades preserving human potential, as well as improving the quality of duration of life have been the priorities of state development. In Ukraine there is constant...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
His Beatitude Sviatoslav (SHEVCHUK):
On February 21 His Beatitude Sviatoslav (SHEVCHUK) was The Day’s guest. We couldn’t not help asking him about his opinion on what is happening in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, fully...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
The president has been invited to a man-to-man talk
Recently the opposition MPs expressed their willingness to talk to the president “not as politicians but as… men.” Vice-speaker Mykola Tomenko announced from the parliament rostrum that the members...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
“Non-bloc status as security orphanhood”
2012 is rich in dates and events that commemorate Ukraine-NATO relations, above all the 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s first contact with the North Atlantic Alliance. January 22-23, 1992, NATO...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
“We fathomed the greatness of our Church’s primate after he had been freed”
Well before Josyf Slipyj was deported to Siberia, Andrei Sheptytsky had nominated him as his coadjutor. NKVD investigators called him “Citizen Sliepoi” and his cellmates “professor,” for he preserved...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
The raider attack on Ukrainian Orthodox Church. This is the Christian way!
Strange things began to happen after the health of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Celebrant of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, had become worse. To be more precise, during the last two meetings...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
Photo exhibit “War Steals Childhood” opens in Mironova Gallery
Concert of the Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy was held at the Palace of Sports on February, 18. Rock musicians, who were recently recognized as the best band in the past 20 years as a part of the ...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
“Black hole” near Kyiv
Not so long ago the Verkhovna Rada endorsed the bill No. 8795 “On the handling of spent nuclear fuel, placement, design, and construction of a centralized repository for spent nuclear fuel from WWER...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
Pawel KOWAL: Russia is in a phase passed by Ukraine
Pawel Kowal, Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament, has been frequently visiting Ukraine. The aim of his recent visit was to attend a meeting...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
Staking on small farms
Distributing agricultural budget pie for this year, the state will provide the priority rights for farmers and individual farms. This was announced by Mykola Prysiazhniuk, Minister of Agrarian...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
Debt pit’s false bottom
The World Bank (WB) hinted in a report last week that the IFC annual investment plan money might become Ukraine’s only source of international loans. Washington is allegedly “tired...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
“FEMEN is a good example of how one’s body can be used to fight for one’s rights”
Why did you choose the photo of a FEMEN activist to be presented at the World Press Photo?“It seemed to me that it is a very positive photo, a kind of a positive look from Europe. It is like a symbol...
23.02.2012 - 00:00
Eurozone’s unprecedented move
The European Union has predictably once again come to Greece’s rescue, demonstrating that its declarations about a solid European community of nations weren’t just words. What with its many problems...













