№17, (2004)
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In 2003 Ukraine’s publishing companies put out half a book per capita
On March 15 the Ostroh Academy National University hosted a roundtable to discuss the problems of the nation’s book publishers. Among those present for the discussion were Ihor Aleksiyenko and Vera...
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Shadows of Hatred
The week before last we buried the American scholar James Mace, a noble person and a friend of Ukrainians. Perhaps like no other foreign researcher, he did his best to make some tragic and horrible...
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Completing the Odesa-Kyiv superhighway: four months to go
“Very soon the ride from Odesa to Kyiv will take three hours and one hour from Odesa to Liubashivka,” Odesa Rail Company Director Illia Levytsky stated with confidence recently. The Odesa-Kyiv...
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A Chance for Ukraine
Fate always gives a certain individual or a certain state a chance to make headway. If this chance is missed, the individual as well as the whole nation will eke out a long miserable existence....
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Modern Epoch in Contemporary Portraits
Ukraine at the Turn of the Third Millennium. Contemporary Portraits. Such is the title of an exhibition featuring one hundred contemporary portraits displayed in Lviv for the first time as part of an...
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This week in history
1942. Presidium of the USSR Supreme Council passed a decision On Confering Commanders of Ukrainian Partisan Detachments Sydor Kovpak, Oleksandr Saburov, and Oleksiy Fedoriv the rank of Heroes of the...
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Ukraine Short on Financial-Industrial Groups
Last week’s Cabinet meeting revealed discrepancies between the nation’s legislation and its political and economic realities. It has transpired that currently there is only one officially registered...
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FLOURISHING BRAND
All those visiting Kyiv for pleasure or business usually look for landmarks they know from books (like Khreshchatyk or Andriyivsky uzviz) or city symbols (its cathedrals or Dnipro slopes). They bring...
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Valery Kuchynsky: Ukraine is UN’s Exemplary Peacekeeper
The UN has an opportunity to restore its reputation as a world body whose voice is heeded and, most importantly, whose recommendations are implemented. The international community can now have a go...
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Odesa Changes Colors
In early May, Odesa becomes the venue for the annual bodyart festival that draws hundreds of models and dozens of artists, who come to show their skill in painting bodies, while others still come...
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Free trade and security policy are GUUAM’s priorities
“Ukraine is now between two geopolitical and geoeconomic blocs: the EU and NATO, on the one hand, and the Eurasian Economic Community and the Collective Security Treaty Organization, on the other....
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Kryvorizhstal could fetch a record price at auction
Last week, Ukraine’s State Property Fund announced a tender to sell a 93.02% stake in Kryvorizhstal, Ukraine’s flagship steel mill, churning out six million tons of rolled metal, seven million tons...
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Eur opean Integration: Signs and Money
On May 15 Ukraine observed the Day of Europe. A European township was laid out on Kyiv’s main street. Strolling down this street, one could envy, silently or out loud, the ten new EU members that...
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Refat CHUBAROV: “But for the president’s pressure and authority, the Crimean Tatar issue would have never been approached.”
May 18 marked the sixtieth anniversary of Crimean Tatar deportation. President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, meeting with the Majlis leader in April, said he was sure the tragic date should be marked...
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Ukraine in the life and music of Karol Szymanowski
Looking back on his lifetime, Karol Szymanowski, an outstanding Polish composer of the early twentieth century, said in an interview soon after his fiftieth birthday, “I was born and raised in...











