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, (2008)

03.06.2008 - 00:00

The magic of Malevich

Even avant-garde buffs are puzzled when they see Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square . What message did the artist want to convey? Nature is green, the sun is red, the moon is yellow, and outer...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

Our Ukraine launches large-scale NATO information project

The recent NATO summit in Bucharest must have been a cold shower for our national democrats, forcing them to switch from rhetoric about the need to conduct explanatory work about NATO to concrete...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

Understanding the price of freedom

On May 27, 2008, an exhibit entitled “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army: The History of the Unvanquished” opened at the Security Service of Ukraine. This large exhibit, which includes over 500...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

“Warriors of the world”

On Thursday, May 29, 2008, Ukraine marked the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on the state level for the fifth time. Key government officials paid their respects to Ukrainian...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

Music in the park

The 11th International Festival “Musical Summer Nights in Kyiv” has opened in Central Park near Mariinsky Palace, attracting music lovers who regularly come on their days off to listen to leading...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

The birthplace of giraffes

Journalism can and must form values, no matter how dubious this idea may sound. Ukrainian society, which declared its goal to become democratic after leaving the post-totalitarian space, is in...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

“9 months + 3 days”

Every woman dreams of becoming a happy mother. When this miracle occurs every mother wants to remember forever the first days of her child. This dream came true for several dozen women in Ukraine and...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

The last school bell

Last week all of Ukraine’s schools went through the last- bell ceremony. For the junior graders it meant the beginning of the summer vacations, but for the eleventh-graders — the start of the most...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

Unfinished Ukrainization: the roots of an historical drama

The Ukrainian public is generally unaware of an important date that was marked in April 2008: the 85th anniversary of the launch of the policy known as Ukrainization. Its genesis is connected to...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

How will the hryvnia revaluation affect your business?

The recent revaluation of the hryvnia will directly affect only a proportion of Ukrainian citizens: those who have savings. However, down the road the measures adopted by the National Bank of Ukraine...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

Estonian recipe

The entry of any country into NATO is a kind of litmus test of its statehood, and one can convince the population of the necessity to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization only with the help of...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

This week in history

June 3 1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys arrive in Moscow to propose joint military actions against the Kingdom of Poland.1906: The first issue of the journal Ukrainskyi visnyk , the organ of the...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

The Dnipropetrovsk context

“Reviving the national culture” was the slogan of the special days that were dedicated to our newspaper and held last week in Dnipropetrovsk under the auspices of our friends at National Mining...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

“Heroes of our time” boldly immortalized in Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipropetrovsk is not Ukraine’s number-one city, but neither is it number two. This maxim, which appeared during Leonid Kuchma’s presidency, was a favorite with his fellow countrymen, who would often...
03.06.2008 - 00:00

A salad of painting and architecture

It is not enough to be a good artist or a talented architect to participate in the Architectural Suite exhibit. The participants see both things as their vocation: educated as architects, they devote...

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