№13, (2011)
01.03.2011 - 00:00
A historical meeting of four Presidents
On February 25, after a telethon, a historical meeting of four Ukrainian presidents took place on Bankova Street. The event lasted for 1.5 hours. The former presidents presented their ideas to...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
This day in history
1903: The cultural-educational Society Volia is founded in Lviv. 1918: A session of the Small Rada in Zhytomyr passes a bill instituting hryvnia as the UNR’s national currency. 1918: The UNR Army...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
EVENT
Joint venture for satellite navigation planned
The Joint-Stock Financial Corporation Sistema in Kyiv and the Swiss company Leica Geosystems will cooperate in creating and operating...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
Jazz melodies in colors
Yurii Novykov, an original Ukrainian artist and Shevchenko Prize winner died a year ago. The master passed away in the heyday of his creative activity, and now his friends and family continue to...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
“Medications” for healthcare
The twelfth “Oxford Club” public debate, organized by the Foundation for Effective Governance and the British company Intelligence Squared, has recently been held in Kyiv. This time one of the most...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
Pancake Week has started!
Today is the first calendar day of spring. Symbolically, it nearly coincided with the first day of Maslianytsia or Pancake Week, when people say goodbye to winter and welcome spring. This year...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
Special status for wetlands
At a time when natural resources are destroyed rather than preserved, one has to appreciate any government initiative aimed at taking care of our parks, forests, lakes, rivers, and so on. Not so long...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
“I will sow flowers in the frost”
My Lesia dates back to The Days of my early childhood. From Lily. Lilies in grandmother’s garden and Lesia’s Lily were sisters in my childish imagination. Later I learned that this was...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
No longer a name, just a number
The Ukraina missile cruiser was built in Ukraine and is 95-percent combat ready. Most likely she will be sold to Russia, as soon as a bargain is struck, said Russia’s Defense Minister...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
Capital renovation
About a month ago the Kyiv City State Administration announced an international contest for the best project on renovating the city’s downtown for the Euro-2012. In other words, Kyiv’s downtown...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
When there are no state orders
There are over a hundred thousand monuments in Ukraine: 57,000 monuments of archeology, 16,000 monuments of architecture and city planning, 51,000 historical ones, and over 5,000 objects...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
Lisova Pisnia in Bengali
First we would like to remind our readers that Bengali ranks as the world’s seventh language by the number of speakers. It is an official language in Bangladesh and in one of the 24 states of...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
Customs in the green
Borders have always played an important role for society. Contraband, smuggled cultural relics, and drug trafficking have always been staple subjects for discussion. Nonetheless, there has been a...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
Proposal to a special partner
The negotiations held on Thursday, February 24, between NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Ukraine’s top authorities showed that Ukraine was not going to slow down cooperation with...
01.03.2011 - 00:00
Love for our four-footed brethren
The problem of animal protection, both happily owned and feral ones, is urgent. Recently there has been a strike by veterinarian who had been prohibited to use a specific anesthetic, ketamine, during...















