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

№26, (2006)

05.09.2006 - 00:00

Beauty the Japanese way

On Sept. 2 the Tawoo Drummers concert launched the “Month of Japan in Ukraine.” The festival is slated to run for three months, ending on Nov. 26 with a concert featuring the ancient Japanese musical...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Two hearts

“But I tell you in all conscience that I loved her as much as I was capable of loving” (from Ivan Franko’s letter to Mykhailo Pavlyk) The poet was referring to Olha Roshkevych, his first love, which...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Presidential rights curtailed

While President Viktor Yushchenko was resting in the Crimea, First Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Azarov remained active. Recently he presided over a joint meeting of three of the cabinet’s five...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

A non-childish approach

On Dec. 2, 2006, Bucharest (Romania) will host the 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Competition entries were open for one month until Aug. 6, after which a professional jury spent one week...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Collector of mutants

Geneticist Viacheslav Konovalov is one of a handful of Ukrainian experts who know the truth about Chornobyl’s impact on human and animal organisms. This scientist has studied plant and animal life in...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Yussef SADAKA: Lebanon has always paid because of controversies inside Israel

The week before the European Union decided to send peacemakers to Southern Lebanon. The most numerous troops of three thousand is going to be sent to Lebanon by Italy who also expressed readiness to...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Ukrzaliznytsia rejects long-term projects to solve current problems

Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) is experiencing difficult times. Several months ago, Vasyl Hladkykh told journalists that Ukraine’s railway company requires immediate changes; passenger services...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Mediterranean cyclone’s aftereffects overcome

Power supplies have been restored to populated areas in the Crimea that suffered from the cyclone, Krymenerho spokesman told the press. The peninsula experienced a Mediterranean cyclone in the early...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Are Ukrainian believers entitled to autocephaly?

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the numerically largest local church within world Orthodoxy. Even the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia (minus her foreign eparchies on all continents) comes second....
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Nothing valuable?

One of the chief arguments of those who opposed Ukraine’s independence was the claim that this country lacks rich mineral resources, of which Russia has plenty. So, the argument went, if Ukraine...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Full cycle

Kuznetsovsk, a rocket scientists’ town of Rivne’s nuclear power station, used to be amazingly tidy with immaculate lawns and flowerbeds, with thick clouds of steam emanating from the giant heat pumps...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Crimea emerging from a blind alley

On the prime minister’s instruction, the Ministry of Fuel and Energy decided at a meeting in Yalta to adopt measures aimed at solving the energy problems of the Crimean peninsula, which generates a...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Not everything blue and yellow is the flag

On Aug. 23 1991, after the failure of the coup d’etat in Moscow, a group of parliamentarians carried the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag into the Verkhovna Rada’s session hall. The next day Ukraine...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Caricatures of the Kobzar

Volodymyr Yatsuk, a renowned Ukrainian art historian and collector, has dedicated his life to researching Taras Shevchenko’s artistic legacy. He is the author of several books and monographs on the...
05.09.2006 - 00:00

Russia becomes an “adversarial regime” to the US

Russia-US relationships appear to be entering a hostile phase. After Vice President Dick Cheney sharp-worded speech in May, Republican Senator Richard Lugar, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations...

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