№15, (2009)
26.05.2009 - 00:00
“Emigrants’ Children on Themselves:” national orphanhood in focus
“I often reflect on why mum is working in Spain and dad in the Czech Republic, while I am here in Ukraine with granny,” writes Olena Frankova, 11, from Khmelnytsky oblast. This is a quote from a...
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“A book cannot change the world, but it can change our heart”
His name has become known in France in the early 1990s. Schmitt’s first works La nuit de Valognes (Don Juan on Trial) and Le Visiteur (Visitor) became popular immediately after publication, and the...
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European trophy in Ukraine!
On May 20, 2009, a historic event for the Ukrainian soccer took place in Istanbul, Turkey. For the first time a soccer team representing independent Ukraine won the UEFA Cup. Defeating Werder (Bremen...
26.05.2009 - 00:00
To goddesses of Hellas from Ukrainian podium
As part of the project Ukrainian Fashion Games in Peloponnesus, Greece, Ukrainian designers presented their creative views of Greece. Light and vivid images coupled with bright summer colors...
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The poet’s “divine spark”
Sept. 4, 2009, is the 200th birth anniversary of Juliusz Slowacki, a Polish romantic poet, who had Ukrainian roots and wrote about Ukraine. He was very well aware of Ukraine’s problems and was, in a...
26.05.2009 - 00:00
Secrets of St. Cyril Church
This is the first time we are celebrating an anniversary of the unique 12th-century architectural monument located in the north-eastern part of Kyiv, in Dorohozhychi. The museum’s history started in...
26.05.2009 - 00:00
This week in history
May 26 1648: Cossack troops led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeat the Poles in the Battle of Korsun. May 27 1657: The Holy Roman Empire enters into an alliance with the Kingdom of Poland (Rzeczpospolita)...
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Taras Hryhorovych Murakami
I would like to assure you straight away that we have nothing against contemporary Ukrainian literature. Thank goodness, we have it. As for classical Ukrainian literature, it is no longer “cool” to...
26.05.2009 - 00:00
Ukraine is not Russia, but why is it not where Poland is?
Adam MICHNIK, editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza and one of those “guilty” of the collapse of communism in Poland, told Kyiv students about the way his country has been shaking off the Soviet legacy...
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Night at the Museum
The lights in the corners were providing only dim illumination, so the visitors were given lanterns to help them see better the pictures. The soft music by DJ Mishukoff filled the museum. This is the...
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Dismissal stayed
Building plans means making God laugh. This saying fits in very well with Ukrainian politics. Last Wednesday BYuT members almost vowed that parliament would vote the minister of defense out of...
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Ukraine as a failed state: myths and reality
Starting from the mid-1990s the world has been discussing the relatively new concept of a “failed state,” which means a dysfunctional state, a state that has failed to develop, a state in ruins....
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Organic food three times more expensive
In defiance of the claims that Ukraine does not have any market for organic food, the demand for organic products (grown without pesticides, genetically modified organisms, mineral fertilizers, and...
26.05.2009 - 00:00
Graffitied stadium
Aided by Lviv’s Directorate for Euro-2012 Information and Promotion, FC Lviv has organized a graffiti festival at the local Sokil stadium. Nearly two dozen young Ukrainian artists have decorated the...
26.05.2009 - 00:00
Lessons from Melbourne meetings
(Conclusion. For beginning see The Day No. 13 and 14)6. A BLOW TO THE NATION-STATEIt is an established fact that mass terror was the key tool for running the state under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph...















