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

№28, (2011)

24.05.2011 - 00:00

Siaivo comes back home

The one and a half years of Siayvo’s homelessness have finally come to the end. The Kyiv Economic Court recently restituted its premises to municipal ownership. Siayvo’s premises had...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

Customs rules upgraded

The Verkhovna Rada (VR) of Ukraine has passed Bill No. 8130-d in the first reading. This bill envisages amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine, numbering 386 pages, including several clauses which...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

<i>Vynnychenko without Bromine</i> wins first prize at festival in Poland

The documentary Vynnychenko without Bromine won the first prize in the nomination “Immigrant’s Bread of Affliction” at the International Festival of Television and Radio Programs...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

The decisions of the Pechersk Court

Yesterday brought good news and bad news. The good one is that Yurii Lutsenko announced that he stopped his hunger strike: “I think it is unwise to go on with the strike. I started it to prove that...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

Mankind must overcome disunity to survive

This concept of survival is laid down in Andrei Sakharov’s Nobel speech (Dec. 11, 1975), entitled “Peace, Progress, Human Rights.” It appears to be very topical decades later,...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

Virtuosos Festival celebrates its anniversary!

This festival was launched by the performance of the Czech soloist Lucie Fiser Silkenova (soprano), the Leopolitan violinist Nazar Pylatiuk, and Academic Symphonic Orchestra of the Lviv...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

This day in history

1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys, led by Colonel Fedir Vyshniakov, arrive in Moscow to negotiate joint combat operations against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1918: Representatives of Ukraine’...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

Georgian opposition proclaims May 25 the “Day of Anger”

Protest actions that started on the weekend have been continuing in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Sources claim that between several hundred and several thousand people spent the night before...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

Vasilii Kliuchevsky

Any morally sound individual cannot be indifferent to his or her cultural origin and ancestors who hundreds of years back traveled the winding and thorny roads of life. Any such individual is...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

Ukraine wins major award at Cannes 2011

Maryna Vroda received the Short Film Palme d’Orfor the Franco-Ukrainian Cross (Cross Country), making this young lady Ukraine’s second producer to win an award at Cannes (after Ihor...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

Are orchids a nuisance?

News about development projects in green belts or the parceling of nature preserves comes as no surprise anymore. The craving for a dacha in a picturesque setting or a posh mansion in a city park...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

Nestlings without a nest

The district child services happened to know that one of the residents of the family orphanage, Sasha Romashkovets, was away from home for three months. They talked to the mother-educator Dzhanina...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

NATO-Ukraine: a history of success

Lieutenant-General Juergen BORNEMANN, who recently assumed the office of Director General of International Military Staff at the NATO Headquarters, has recently visited Ukraine. Previously, as...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

On Russia’s diplomatic etiquette

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev told a Moscow press conference on May 18 that the leadership of Ukraine should decide at last with what countries it is going to develop the closest...
24.05.2011 - 00:00

Preferences for oil refineries

The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine prepared two bills for the development of domestic oil refineries and to improve the competitiveness of Ukrainian oil products. As Interfax-Ukraine...

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