№24, (2008)
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Under a foreign yoke
The life of the prominent 19th-century Ukrainian thinker Mykhailo Drahomanov-and especially the reception of his colossal intellectual heritage by his contemporaries and subsequent generations-is a...
29.07.2008 - 00:00
Not a word about partnership
On Thursday President Viktor Yushchenko gathered several dozen journalists from the central mass media on the green lawns of his Secretariat, where his quarterly press conferences are traditionally...
29.07.2008 - 00:00
From servility to revolt, non-stop
For Russia, 2008 is becoming a litmus test that, plunged into the glass of Russian reality, is exposing the actual situation: a new president has been elected and the project to choose “The...
29.07.2008 - 00:00
A romantic in the era of pragmatism. Dmytro Dontsov in the context of 20th-century Ukraine
In contemporary Ukraine, Dmytro Dontsov (1883-1973) remains at best a partially acceptable but mostly controversial figure. It is difficult to imagine a non- Galician city that would name a street...
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This week in history
July 29 1880: The Aivazovsky Art Gallery opens in Feodosiya (Crimea).
1994: Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine suspends the privatization process.
July 30 1920: Ukrainian Military Organization led by Yevhen...
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What church do we call “our own”?
Now that Ukraine is celebrating the 1,020th anniversary of the baptism of Rus’, sociologists would like to know Ukrainian attitudes to some historical landmarks in Ukraine that are connected with the...
29.07.2008 - 00:00
The way it was
THE 900TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BAPTISM OF RUS’ IN 1888 In 1888 tsarist Russia celebrated — for the first time on such a scale — the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Kyivan Rus’ and honored the...
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Beneath the sails of Paris
Summer is in full swing, so it’s time to talk about Paris. You won’t find a better conversationalist for this topic than Oleh Skrypka, the lead singer of the Ukrainian rock group Vopli...
29.07.2008 - 00:00
When the spirit is victorious
Four Ukrainian sailors, together with nine crewmen from Burma and one each from Estonia and Russia, were kept hostage from May 28 to July 8 by 30 “Somalia Soldier” sea pirates on board the German...
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Pyrohove museum gains title to 131 hectares
The Kyiv City State Administration (KMD) recently adopted a decision to transfer the title to 131 hectares of land to the Pyrohove State Museum of People’s Architecture and Folkways of Ukraine. This...
29.07.2008 - 00:00
Smart and smarter
One should give the current Minister of Education and Science Ivan Vakarchuk his due. After taking up this office, where he inherited a mess not of his own making, he tackled it heroically. The mess...
29.07.2008 - 00:00
Straw kingdom
This year the Ukrainian Museum of Folk Architecture and Daily Life in the village of Pyrohove, near Kyiv, again attracted the country’s best wickerwork artisans. “According to our creative council,...
29.07.2008 - 00:00
The ecumenical patriarch comes to Kyiv
What many well-wishers and critics did not believe until the last minute ended up happening: Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople came to ancient Kyiv. He arrived on a Ukraine International...
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Scientists expose tobacco myths
Women’s conviction that smoking helps to control weight is a myth, as evidenced by the findings of a team of experts at University College London. During a six-year-long study the scientists followed...
29.07.2008 - 00:00
A barrier on the way to the European dream
A hostel for 200 foreign migrants recently opened in the village of Rozsudiv in Chernihiv oblast, on the premises of a formal military unit. Migrants can stay there for up to six months even if they...
















