№22, (2007)
24.07.2007 - 00:00
Dnipropetrovsk orphans opt for suicide
Vocational School No. 2 in Dnipropetrovsk is where orphans, children who are legally separated from their parents, and handicapped children, many of whom suffer from mental disorders, go to school....
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Enough jobs to go around
There are 1,330,000 disabled people of working age in Ukraine. One of their greatest needs is to be useful to society and as independent as possible. None of them wants to be a burden on the nation...
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Policy of memory
Memory, democracy, spiritual health and freedom of society are very closely-related categories. For a generation of mindless slaves, sincerely convinced (zombified, to be more exact) that “history...
24.07.2007 - 00:00
“Even you, Brutus!”
As everyone knows from their school history lessons, Rome became a republic sometime at the turn of the 5th century BC, and a little later the Twelve Tables, the basis of Roman Law for free citizens...
24.07.2007 - 00:00
Watch out for our guys!
After the bout between IBF world champion Wladimir Klitschko and Lamon Brewster virtually all heavyweight boxers are refusing to fight Wladimir. So Vitali, the younger Klitschko, has to wait until he...
24.07.2007 - 00:00
The dissident clergyman
Twelve years ago a grave appeared in the center of Kyiv, on St. Sophia Square, at the foot of the belfry of St. Sophia’s Cathedral. It contains the earthly remains of Patriarch Volodymyr of Kyiv and...
24.07.2007 - 00:00
There will be no gap
A couple of weeks ago Ukraine marked Accountant’s Day. Government officials greeted these professionals, whose occupation is so important for the Ukrainian economy, and stressed that they are now...
24.07.2007 - 00:00
An eyesore next to the Church of the Tithes
There are approximately 30,000 organizations in Ukraine that belong to various religions and denominations and which exercise freedom of religion that the Constitution of Ukraine guarantees them...
24.07.2007 - 00:00
Maria the Implacable
(Conclusion. Part One in The Day No. 21) The Bolshevik military command turned a blind eye to the “pranks” of the female otaman and her unit. The Soviet commander- in-chief, Ukrainian-born Vladimir...
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A screen that heals
The opening of a stationary movie theater for psychologically challenged people in a psycho- neurological boarding school in the Kyiv suburb of Pushcha Vodytsia is a real breakthrough. It is a...
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Solving ancient mysteries
Who does not dream of traveling to faraway places? Sometimes our desire for a change of scenery is thwarted by lack of time or money. But you don’t have to go far to acquire some fresh impressions....
24.07.2007 - 00:00
Square meter prophesies
Those wishing to buy some real estate now have a hard time trying to make sense of the market-price forecasts are constantly changing. One estimate is often followed by a contrary prediction. The...
24.07.2007 - 00:00
Winners of Ukrainian art quiz head for World Art Olympiad
Nineteen winners of the quiz “Art Summer in Venice with the PinchukArtCentre” will travel to Venice compete in the World Art Olympiad. From Aug. 16 to 19 they will explore the 52nd Venice Biennale...
24.07.2007 - 00:00
This week in history
July 24 1880: The political trial of members of the combined groups, Narodnaia Volia and Chorny Peredel, begins in Kyiv. 1990: Ukraine’s national blue-and-yellow flag is raised for the first time in...
24.07.2007 - 00:00
Jean-Paul VEZIANT: “Situations like this will never happen again”
Why did Ukrainian children have to dance outside the French Embassy for three hours to obtain visas? How much will the simplified procedure ease the problem of obtaining visas? The answers to these...














