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

№13, (2003)

15.04.2003 - 00:00

Dim Mykoly Gallery opens an almost serious exhibition

As children we were taught scores of instructive rhymes like this one, “This is a chair, you sit on it; this is a table, you eat at it...” It feels good to refute these truths one by one throughout...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Ukrainian Journalism Suffers Double Blow

Last Tuesday shocked all those who knew TV cameraman Taras Protsiuk. There are a great many because Taras’s free and friendly nature let him make new friends easily. Last Wednesday night his...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Valentyna DOVZHENKO on why the gender problem got lost along the way from Ukraine to Strasbourg

Experts believe that mass consciousness in Ukraine is still under the influence of patriarchal stereotypes, which numerous public opinion polls confirm. For example, about 60% of women and over 50...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Situation Normal

“We have managed during the past year to hold our ground in the world rocket industry and on the space services market,” Yury Alekseyenko, public relations director of the Dnipropetrovsk-based...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Oleksandr TODIYCHUK: Taking the European oil transport route

The Day has on more than one occasion touched on the issue of the Ukrainian section of the Eurasian oil transport corridor. Now the problem has again surfaced, assuming geopolitical significance...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Spring: Kyiv Steps Onto the Catwalk

April 18-20 Ukraine will host for the first time the Kyiv Catwalk International Fashion Festival. Unlike the Fashion Seasons where the already popular Ukrainian designers display their collections,...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Dialog over Borders

The Kyiv House of Scholars hosted a most interesting concert by the Ricochet Ensemble of new music (conductor Ihor Nazarenko, artistic director Serhiy Piliutykov) called Time and Perception as part...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Gender Litter and Quotas for Equality

Political history is a history of men’s politics. Women occupy about 12% seats in the world’s parliaments, while the remaining 88% are occupied by men. The situation with the “women’s question” in...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

While Russia competes for conscripts

29,500 Ukrainians aged 18 to 25 are trying to evade the military draft, believes Anatoly Kobas, deputy chief of the organization and mobilization department at the General Headquarters of the Armed...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Economizing on Boxes, or Assessing Consequences of Political Reform

On April 11 the finance and economy ministries made a joint effort to explain to journalists the economic side of the constitutional reform proposed by the president, arguing that the reform will...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Ukraine isn’ t prepared for atypical pneumonia

Meanwhile, Monday before last the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine released a reassuring statement. Citing Chinese Health Minister Zhang Wenkang, the diplomats assured journalists that “the virus is under...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

INVITATION TO A POSITION

The month of photography in Kyiv is gaining momentum. Its speed is dreadful; pictures replace each other like in a kaleidoscope, leaving one amazed at the smartness of the organizers who have to open...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Everybody Dance

The Kyiv Meridian Sports Complex hosted a contest in ballroom dancing for the mayor’s cup, Parade of Hopes-2003, with dancers from Ukraine and abroad taking part. A Kyiv couple performing in the...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

Aspirin for Bread Headache

As was to be expected, the clampdown on grain traders by the law enforcement agencies has slashed grain exports from Ukraine. Currently, grain reserves in Ukraine come to two million tons. However,...
15.04.2003 - 00:00

No Male Chauvinism in Ukraine

Unfortunately, the higher civilization rises, the lower falls people’s spirituality. By moving away from nature we lose our healthy moral beginnings and forget that a person comes into this world to...

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