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, (2009)

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“An artist in formaldehyde”

The horribly expensive British artist Damien Hirst first showed up in Kyiv and Ukraine in 2007. The exhibit “Reflection” in the PinchukArtCenter included his works that appeal to the eternal topic of...
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This week in history

April 28 1887: A convent of sugar manufacturers in the south of Ukraine sets up Ukraine’s first sugar syndicate. 1958: For the first time in the history of cooperation between the USSR’s border...
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Ihor OSTASH: the history of Canada can be an example of how national history should be written

Most of the Ukrainians know that Canada is the world’s second largest country famous for ice hockey and a sizable community of the citizens of Ukrainian origin. Why does Canada remain attractive for...
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Reaffirming Europe

ROME/STOCKHOLM — The ongoing global economic crisis is shaking beliefs and approaches that have long been enshrined in European policies. Indeed, the crisis is calling into question the very...
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Ethnic education in Opishnia

Paisii, an old monk of the Sviatohorsky Monastery, said a long time ago that family is the greatest value in this world. Should the family disappear, the entire world would cease to exist.It is...
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National abstraction or social project?

Contrary to the forecasts of many philosophers and historians, the 20th century was the era of national liberation movements and national renaissance. The truth is that every nation is the...
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Seeking place for Polissian Atlantis

In 1993–2008 ethnographers, linguists, state officials, museum employees, and other caring people took part in 35 historical-ethnographic expeditions in the Chornobyl zone and amassed an...
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Lessons from Melbourne meetings

In late March 2009 a workshop seminar on comparative analyses of famines in various countries took place in Melbourne. This was the first time when the leading European, North American, and Asian...
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Listening to classical music changes the listener

In Kyiv classical music performers have for quite a while played to full houses. The Kyiv Philharmonic Society has been as popular as always, with the devotees coming no matter what. These people...
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Time for reflection

The present term of the European Parliament is fast approaching its end. In two weeks’ time the parliament will close down for more than two months to resume with a new set of parliamentarians from...
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One more way to meet globalization challenge

It is a great rarity for a new idea to continue to exist for three years in unfavorable conditions of Ukrainian realities, especially if the idea is fueled only by the enthusiasm of a handful of...
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Ukraine’s distinguished nun

At the Convent of the Society of the Holy Cross at Zymne, which is located not far from the ancient town of Volodymyr-Volynsky and is one of Ukraine’s oldest cloistered communities, the sisters have...
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The period of “Chornobyl’s decay”

Twenty-three years have passed since The Day of April 26 divided human fates into “before” and “after” the disaster at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Until this day it is the world’s worst...
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What did the president say and what was heard?

While Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Alla Pugacheva at her jubilee concert in the Ukraine Palace, President Viktor Yushchenko held a press conference in the Ukrainian...
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Tired heart

When Anton Makarenko, aged 51, suddenly died in a train car, his heart was, according to the autopsist, torn in twain. The myocardial infarction sometimes develops precisely like that: the...

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