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

№16, (2008)

20.05.2008 - 00:00

Ambitions eroding sense of responsibility for Ukraine

Acceleration of the constitutional process in Ukraine is the reason behind the following interview with former Prime Minister Yevhen MARCHUK, who has also held the posts of defense minister and...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

Vyshenka-Yablunka line working again

To the great joy of Kyiv’s children, railway traffic between the Yablunka and Vyshenka stations of the Kyiv Children’s Railway has been restarted. This is the only railway in Eastern Europe where...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

Petro Bolbochan, colonel of the “Zaporozhians”

The revolutionary camp that opposed Hetman Skoropadsky’s regime turned out to be politically heterogeneous. There were radical revolutionaries as well as moderate elements. Without a doubt, Colonel...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

See you in Brussels in June!

With the latest wave of enlargement in 2004 the European Union took a big step forward in expanding security and prosperity throughout the European continent. The enlargement means that the external...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

Who will tell schoolchildren the truth?

A few days ago the Web site of the Ostriv Center for Research on the Social Prospects of the Donbas (http://ostro.org) posted an article entitled “The Sources of Patriotism: What Kind of History...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

Ukraine in the postcommunist world

1. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY Columbia University ranks among the top five institutions of higher learning in the US. Founded as a private institution in 1754, it is still run by a Board of...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

Manifesto of freedom

On April 5, 1710, Pylyp Orlyk was elected hetman at Bendery, in the presence of Cossack officers, Hordiienko’s Zaporozhian Cossacks, and emissaries from the Zaporozhians of Oleshky. This was...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

On the verge of a society

All over the world, prisons are the cruelest places to be in. Even so, Ukraine’s penitentiaries are a far cry from world standards. The situation in 183 Ukrainian prisons beggars belief: the State...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

The doctrine of constitutional changes in Ukraine

As the head of state and acting on its behalf, the president is, according to Article 102 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the guarantor of Ukraine’s political sovereignty and territorial integrity,...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

Stalin’s rage

The problem of assessment of the crimes perpetrated by Stalin’s totalitarian regime, especially the deportation of Crimean Tatars and other ethnic groups that were a nuisance to the Kremlin rulers...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

Photos for touching

Visually handicapped people in Kyiv recently had a unique opportunity to touch art at a photography exhibit called “To Touch and to See,” which was specially organized for them at the Ukrainian House...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

A family celebration

It is difficult to take a trip around the world in 80 days. But how about galloping over Europe in a single day? This year was the sixth opportunity for Ukrainians and their neighbors in Europe to...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

Yevhen MARCHUK : “The constitutional struggle today means a struggle for power tomorrow”

In the following interview Yevhen MARCHUK comments on current constitutional mistakes and lessons from the past. Mr. Marchuk, why do you think that the representatives of various party camps and...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

“ At first, people did not believe that you could talk about history and the present day that way”

It is not enough to call the event that took place recently in Chernihiv an extraordinary one. The organizers of the roundtable “In Memory of James Mace” — about the Holodomor of 1932-33-was a...
20.05.2008 - 00:00

Pavlo Makov’s new show called Gardens and Parks

Pavlo Makov is considered Ukraine’s best graphic artist, and not because he holds this distinction, but because this is what the artistic Boheme was whispering about during the opening of the artist’...

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