№14, (2012)
01.03.2012 - 00:00
New assets against the old ones
Yurii Kolobov, ex-first deputy chairman of the board, National Bank of Ukraine, was appointed as Minister of Finance of Ukraine. The man is rumored to be a close friend of the Yanukovych family....
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Russia after March 4
One of the most discussed events in the post-Soviet space has recently been the presidential election in Russia, scheduled for next Sunday, March 4. If no divine forces intervene, the incumbent prime...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Meryl STREEP: The hardest thing is to remain new
One of the central events of this year’s Berlin Film Festival is awarding the outstanding American actress Meryl Streep with the honorary Golden Bear. Besides, the premiere of the biopic The...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
“Reloading” by Khoroshkovsky
Probably, many people have already forgotten the word “reloading” introduced into the foreign-policy vocabulary by Hillary Clinton in 2009. We remind our readers that this way Barack...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Mykola Khriienko’s Balkan route
Let us recall that the photo event is being held as a part of The Day of Unity of Ukraine celebrations, initiated by the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Macedonia and the Lesia Ukrainka...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Beware of terrorists!
Vladimir Putin’s campaign program article on Russia’s foreign policy was followed Monday by an assassination attempt on the prime minister and number-one presidential candidate’s life. A field day...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Love and fate
After a 20-year break this ballet masterpiece again adorns the billboard of the Donetsk-based Solovianenko National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. It will be reminded that the famous novel...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Les Kurbas commemorative plaque unveiled in Kyiv
A commemorative plaque dedicated to Les Kurbas, an outstanding Ukrainian stage director, actor, manager of the Berezil drama company, was recently unveiled on Volodymyrska St. in Kyiv, to the...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Four years of political vendetta
The circle closed up: both leaders of political blocks (BYuT and NU-NS) who had won the parliamentary elections in 2007 were sentenced for a long imprisonment. “I will not be let out from this cage...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
The economy needs support from culture
Beata Stelmach, Undersecretary of State for Global Economic Policy, Promotion, and Culture at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited Ukraine the other day and held a series of negotiations with...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
If you want to raise a child to be a free and tolerant person take him to a museum
French art critic Francoise Barbe-Gall has long specialized on the subject “art and children.” She holds the position of the adviser to the French Ministry of Education and believes...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Native Communist Party, father Stalin, and dear Lenin…
Unlike Nazi totalitarianism which did not try to hide the antihuman essence of its ideology, communist totalitarianism held in power not only thanks to terror but also due to constant use of fraud...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Letters to Ukraine – 14
What is love? Is it a desire, something gut-based that wrenches us into action? Is it cerebral, a cool certitude that guides us towards selflessness? What it isn’t, certainly, is something contained...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
Russia’s presidential candidate promises to get married after winning campaign
The televised debate between Russia’s presidential candidates Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) and billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov was comparatively...
01.03.2012 - 00:00
An illusory choice
The National Electricity Regulatory Commission of Ukraine (Ukr. abbr., NKRE) proposes to allow all consumers to choose gas suppliers, reads the draft resolution “On Determining the Degree of...














