№2, (2008)
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Time to gather for a skit
It is no secret to anyone that the “time for gathering” is much more constructive than the “time of scattering.” The subject of gathering or scattering is of no importance. What is important is the...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Making Ukraine’s roads safer
In the past few years Ukrainian roads have become a mortal danger to people. Traffic police report that in 2007 alone 62,000 accidents claimed over 9,000 human lives and left 77,000 people injured....
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Kamianets-Podilsky time
Kamianets-Podilsky is an ancient Ukrainian city. It still has the same town hall clock that rang in the year 1884. But that year is gone and a new generation,...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Orthodox Christians celebrate Epiphany
According to old Orthodox beliefs, on the day of Epiphany, the feast of the baptism of Jesus, all bodies of water acquire miracle-working qualities; those who have the guts to immerse themselves...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Fireworks instead of politics
According to a 2006 survey, only about two percent of Ukraine’s young people are members of civic organizations or at least are aware of their existence. This is a staggeringly low figure, because in...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Ukraine’s national soccer team: an episode or an epoch?
In Mukachiv last Monday, President Viktor Yushchenko once again focused attention on the need to speed up preparations for the 2012 European soccer championship. “I would like to send a distress...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Richard LUGAR: Reducing of your own vulnerability will protect you against energy pressure
Co-Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs Richard Lugar is nearly the greatest friend of Ukraine of all the foreign politicians. He has been visiting Ukraine since 1993, therefore he...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
The price of awakened insight
There is a long-standing dictum that artistic works of a truly high level, including literature, offer the possibility to see a future path along which History itself will soon advance and to discern...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Will the government provide?
On Jan. 16, 2008, the Cabinet of Ministers unanimously approved its draft program “The Ukrainian Breakthrough: for People, Not Politicians.” According to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Reviving Europe’s Universities
COPENHAGEN — Writing at home sometime ago, with Wimbledon on TV in the background, it occurred to me that just as Britain hosts the world’s top tennis tournament but never wins it, so we Europeans...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Stork arriving more frequently
Young families have received a nice present from the government. Starting on Jan. 1, 2008, assistance with birth costs for a first child is 12,240 hryvnias and for a second — 25,000. For a third and...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Super jazz
This year’s series of Jazz-kolo concerts, the brainchild of well-known jazzman and bass guitarist Ihor Zakus and the head of the Kyiv-based Tempora Publishing House Yulia Oliinyk, was launched on Jan...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
This week in history
Jan. 22 Day of Ukrainian Unity 1919: The Direktoria of the Ukrainian National Republic proclaims the reunification of the UNR with the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR) on St. Sophia Square...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
A step toward Europe
On Jan. 18, official Kyiv forwarded a letter to the NATO Secretary General, requesting the Membership Action Plan (MAP). Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Volodymyr Ohryzko, on a visit to...
22.01.2008 - 00:00
Unemployment with a degree
Wage dissatisfaction, the lack of demand on the labor market, and limited career opportunities are the main factors that prevent young people from finding a job. These are the findings of a survey...















