№25, (2009)
22.09.2009 - 00:00
New airport terminal in Lviv:
The preparations for building the new passenger terminal on the territory of the Lviv International Airport started on September 15. Mykola Kmit, head of the Lviv Oblast State Administration, told...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Ukraine welcomes masterpieces
On Oct. 5, Kyiv will host the Great Antiquary Salon that will feature an unmatched collection of the world sculpture masterpieces by August Rodin (The Thinker, The Burghers of Calais, Adam will be...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Chinese school of positive development
In the modern globalized and truly complicated world, which has been seriously traumatized by the financial and economic crisis, China has truly undertaken the mission of “a school of positive...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Ukrainians more forgiving
Hard life does not always make people crueller; sometimes it has the opposite effect. According to the all-Ukrainian survey by the Kyiv-based Horshenin Institute of Management Problems, 42.7 percent...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Dynamo Kyiv again ahead of Barcelona
Only two Dynamo Kyiv players, Oleksandr Shovkovsky and Andrii Shevchenko, remember these Champions League games. At the time, both were a little over 20 and their entire soccer careers were still...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Foreign challenges, domestic risks
Taras STETSKIV: Ukraine is being weakened by the feud between the President and the prime minister, which is used by the essentially non-Ukrainian opposition and stimulated from abroad Two weeks ago...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Taxation issues
Ukraine’s taxation system is special in that taxpayers are burdened not so much with the high level of taxes as with uncoordinated regulations, chaotic and slapdash changes, and legal nihilism on the...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
GULAG as a “positive hero”
Seventy-five years ago Moscow hosted the First Congress of Soviet Writers (Aug. 17 – Sept. 1, 1934). It turned out to be a singular event in terms of its scope, duration, and guests from abroad.We...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Where is our strength?
One of the major problems of Ukraine’s current political elite is its inability to accumulate and protect the interests of Ukrainian citizens. The consequences include public distrust of the people...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
“I leave a part of my heart in Ukraine”
Many Ukrainians were saddened to learn that Nicola Franco Balloni, director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Ukraine, is finishing his activities in Kyiv. Balloni’s name is associated with...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
9-year-long quest for the truth
About 200 people gathered on the Maidan to pay homage to Gongadze. They all demanded unbiased and fair investigation in his case. They wore black armbands with the inscriptions “I demand justice!”...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Ostroh Academy publishes 3rd volume of Ulas Samchuk’s works
OSTROH — Ostroh Academy recently published a collection of works by Ulas Samchuk entitled Mariia, Vidnaidenyi rai (Rediscovered Paradise), and Choho ne hoit’ vohon’ (What Fire Does not Heal),...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Gas supplies not on agenda
The Presidents of Ukraine and Turkmenistan have agreed to set up a task force that will form a highest-level intergovernmental commission, reports the Ukrainian President’s press service. The...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Valerii Shevchuk: I seek to cognize man
On occasion of the 70th birth anniversary of this outstanding Ukrainian writer, Ukraine’s National Museum of Literature has opened an exhibit dedicated to his work.Valerii Shevchuk’s works are a kind...
22.09.2009 - 00:00
Pictures made of ... fungi
The walls of Tamara Lysenko’s apartment in Vinnytsia are hung with eye-pleasing fragments of natural scenes, wonderful birds and beasts, and heroes of fairy tales—all made of bracket fungi, plants...













