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

№17, (2003)

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One Woman, Five Lives

Sometimes my life in America seems so far away that the memories of it appear to me like part of someone else’s biography, but then I get a reminder of that world — an e-mail, a phone call, or an old...
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Ukraine through the Eyes of Laslo Shyp

May 16, a one-man show of renowned Transcarpathian master of wooden sculpture Laslo Shyp was opened in the exhibition hall of the National Union of Masters of Folk Arts. Laslo Laslovych displays his...
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Why did Petro Jacyk initiate the Ukrainian Language Contest in Ukraine?

On May 22, marking the Day of the Ukrainian Language, the National Opera of Ukraine hosted the closing ceremony of the Third Petro Jacyk International Ukrainian Language Contest. This popular...
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From rhetoric to competition

One of the culmination points of the Year of Russia in Ukraine in terms of politics was Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov’s visit to Kyiv and the first ever joint meeting of the boards of Foreign...
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This week in history

May 27: 1657. The Holy Roman Empire contracted an alliance with Rzeczpospolita, promising to render military assistance to Poland and mediate in its negotiations with Bohdan Khmelnytsky. 1821....
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Oleksandr Hapchuk Knows How to Churn Sour Cream

The All-Ukrainian Black Gem Prize for Achievement in Fashion and Advertising awards ceremony took place recently at the Kyiv Expo Plaza. In the nine years that have passed since the first Black Gem,...
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Yevhen Marchuk: “Transition to NATO Membership Action Plan in 2004 is possible”

May 23 marked one year to the day since NSDC Secretary Yevhen Marchuk announced the decision to start the process whose ultimate goal is Ukraine’s integration with NATO. Throughout the past year,...
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Russia rejects Ukraine’s initiatives

The next session of the ministerial taskforce of the four prospective member states of the single CIS economic space has been slated for June 4 in Kyiv, Vitaly Lukyanenko, aide to Ukraine’s First...
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Protocols of the Elders of Energy: True or False?

It was reported on May 23 that Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland had discussed in Salzburg preparations for the June 22-23 Ukrainian-Polish Economic Forum to be...
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Arabesques by the Students of Vadym Pysariev

On May 18 pupils of the famous dancer brilliantly performed Sleeping Beauty by PСtr Tchaikovsky at the National Opera of Ukraine. One of the latter works of the Donetsk Solovyanenko Opera and Ballet...
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Ukraine and Poland Should Observe the Dates that Unite Us

The Day continues the debate on the root and essence of the 1943-1944 interethnic conflict in Volyn which claimed tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Polish lives. In any case, one should neither...
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Europe’s Secular Mission

Economics and politics have been uneasy allies in the process of European unification. From the moment Europe’s coal and steel industries were merged in an effort to prevent future wars on the...
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This was the present Pivdennoukrayinsk residents received for the day of the city from the local nuclear plant administrators

When chestnut trees are in full bloom, the city of energy workers celebrates its birthday. Pivdennoukrayinsk with its 40,000 people, a satellite town of the most powerful energy giant of the Buh...
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Ukraine: Images, Symbols, Archetypes

Volodymyr Korniev’s one-man show has opened at the Griffin Gallery. The master’s art is actually transferring to canvas the idea of Ukraine in the form of a set of symbols, images, and archetypes,...
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PYROHY FEAST

People danced, bought food and drink, and feasted on the pyrohy [curd/meat/fruit dumplings, otherwise known as varenyky and to our friends in Chicago as perogies] all last weekend at the Spivoche...

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