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

№18, (2006)

06.06.2006 - 00:00

Maidan to be cleaned up

About 10 years ago I was very surprised by what a friend of mine told me about the United States: there are a lot of street people, who behave aggressively, and if a smelly tramp sits down next to...
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Professionalism helps overcome poverty and dependence

June 5 marks the Journalists’ Day in Ukraine, as per presidential edict signed in May 1994 and timed to coincide with the date of the Ukrainian Journalists’ Union’s accession to the International...
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The Petliura whom we still do not understand

The 80th anniversary of the death of Symon Petliura was recently marked in Ukraine. Commemorations in his honor were secured on the highest level through a decree signed last year by President...
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Read, children!

Kyiv’s first children’s charity fair opened on May 31 at Ukraine House. Organized by the Publishers’ Forum, the fair is not sponsored either by the state or the private sector. According to the forum...
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Impasse or compromise?

What kind of a coalition agreement will be formed in Ukraine and most importantly, how will the most “sensitive” issues be formulated in it? These questions probably have far more weight than the...
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Society and the state weighed on the scales of history

(Continued from no. 17)5. INDEPENDENT UKRAINE RULED BY THE SOVIET-COMMUNIST PARTY NOMENKLATURA Earlier I mentioned that the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet system were different phenomena, but in...
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Nearly two million preschoolers make a country out of plasticene

On May 31 Kyiv hosted a ceremony to conclude “My Native Land,” a competition of children’s art works. The contest is an unusual one, as all the participants were preschoolers from every Ukrainian...
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This week in history

June 6 (Journalists Day in Ukraine) 2000: During US President Bill Clinton’s visit to Ukraine, his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma announces the date for shutting down the Chornobyl nuclear power...
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Negativity should not be cultivated

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kyiv held a soiree commemorating Ambassador’s Viktor Chernomyrdin’s fifth anniversary at his post. The Russian diplomat decided to stage the celebration as a...
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James SHERR: “NATO will not let Russia dictate who should be Ukraine’s partner”

In 2002 Ukraine announced its policy of Euro-Atlantic integration, with NATO membership as the ultimate goal. During the recent parliamentary elections in Ukraine, election frontrunners avoided the...
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The cost of recycling

Ukraine has just participated a second time in a meeting of the 42 countries that signed the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management....
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“It is absurd to talk about military expansion in the Crimea”

Did the Ukrainian government react adequately to the incident involving an American merchant ship that was blocked in the port of Feodosia? Who stands to gain from this kind of provocation? The Day...
06.06.2006 - 00:00

Choristers: the unkno wn history of the Dniprosoyuz First Traveling Choir

In 2003 the Vinnytsia Oblast Ethnographic Museum obtained a set of personal papers from the archive of Hnat Yastrubetsky, a little known Ukrainian cultural and musical figure of the 1920s. Among the...
06.06.2006 - 00:00

An-70: Despite ineffective bureaucracy, experts remain optimistic that the plane will be built

“This project is based on 1984 technical specifications, and there seems to be no end to it. We shall see what happens next. There will be a special announcement on this matter,” Russian Defense...
06.06.2006 - 00:00

It’s fashionable to read!

“You can’t wait for handouts from the government. You have to grab a pitchfork and fight for freedom for Ukrainian books,” say the publishing duo, the Kapranov brothers. Book-publishing is not a...

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