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

№29, (2009)

20.10.2009 - 00:00

Ideological friends or foes?

With regard to cultural education, workers were paid for their tickets to concerts of classical music or gala shows from the DAF’s rich budget that was mostly financed by entrepreneurs. (A worker...
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Joschka Fischer: Ukraine mustn’t be subject of Russia-Europe controversy

COPENHAGEN — Germany’s ex-Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer favors Ukraine’s integration into the European Union. Not coincidentally, he was one of few European politicians who lobbied for Javier...
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Official subsistence level in Ukraine too low

Ukraine and the rest of the world have recently focused attention to poverty – October 16 marked World Food Day and October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Statistically,...
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Find your way in this world

Eyesight provides a person with 80 to 90 percent of all the information about the surrounding environment. The World Health Organization says that every year the number of blind people on the...
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Mykhailo Drai-Khmara and Ukrainian national idea

The name of Mykhailo Drai-Khmara is associated, above all, with the pleiad of the Neoclassicists, i.e., the group of Kyiv-based poets who developed classical forms of artistic thinking in...
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The art of escape

Paintings of the Interesting Fairytales group started to appear on Kyiv’s walls several years ago. Theirs are huge, at times wall-size, frescoes featuring strange characters seemingly stiffened in...
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More time and persistence needed

On Oct. 14, 2009, Ukrainians celebrated the holiday of the Protection of the Mother of God. This is also Ukrainian Cossacks Day and The Day of Creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Certainly, a...
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Living by touch

RIVNE — Svitlana Halushko has been teaching history in School No. 20 in Rivne for two decades now. She graduated from this school and taught her first lessons here. There is one special thing about...
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The cost of grabitization

The economic well-being of a country largely depends on the government’s ability to manage the state property the right way. Ukraine is reaping the first gruesome harvest of the big-time...
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Operation Artek

The case of “pedophiles in Artek” is snowballing. New horrendous details appear every day. Attorney Tetiana Montian recently claimed that there was an entire den of pedophiles in the children’s...
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Playing single-candidate game

Candidates for presidency are now hunting for the electorate, anxious to get votes by hook or by crook. Viktor Yanukovych, for example, is frequenting churches and orphanages. Just yesterday, for...
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Diplomatic step toward cleaner world

This year the fate of our planet may be determined in many ways. Either the state leaders, who will gather on Dec. 7–18, 2009, for the UN Conference on Climate Changes in Copenhagen, will un­der­ta­...
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This short, long KROK

The 16th International Animated Film Festival KROK, a 20-year-old regular event, was shorter in 2009 than usual. Nevertheless, the quality of the competing films and the number of professional...
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25th Ukrainian Fashion Week

October 15 saw the launch of Ukraine’s 25th Fashion Week, featuring 2010 spring-summer collections by five Ukrainian designers who have differing and even contrasting creative approaches. As it is,...
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<I>Den</I> launches photo exhibit, new book in Lutsk

LUTSK — Den/The Day has launched the tour of its photo exhibit around Ukraine in Lutsk – for a reason. Volyn National University is one of the newspaper’s partners and is distanced from the...

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