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

№32, (2012)

29.05.2012 - 00:00

Volodymyr MAKEIENKO: “Parliament will only change under a 100-percent first-past-the-post system”

Volodymyr Makeienko is a longtime MP. He was the youngest deputy at the first-convocation Verkhovna Rada. He knows for sure what the parliament used to be and is now. We are discussing with...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

The best of times, the worst of times

The biennale began with a witty performance by R.E.P., right on the sidewalk opposite the entrance to the Mystetsky Arsenal. A folk band, clad in embroidered shirts, were playing traditional folk...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

History of a Restoration

Chernivtsi Regional Art Museum is proud of having restored the late 19th century pilgrimage icon The Lives of the Saints. It is an oil painting. The icon was dirty and whole layers of paint were...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

“There is no ‘nuclear club’ at all”

Ukrainians mostly pay attention to the EU space, because we are part of Europe. The attention to the East is smaller, and this is not very reasonable, because we don’t know what is going on...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

Lutsk starts to fulfill its tourism ambitions

Lutsk announced its tourism ambitions several months ago when Lina Ostapchuk, the leading specialist of the department of international cooperation and tourism at the Lviv City Council, came back...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

Petliura and Facebook

On May 25, 1926, Symon Petliura, the Chief Otaman of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR), was shot by Sholom Schwartzbard while walking on rue Racine, near Saint-Michel, in Paris. It was a...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

March of fashionably dressed people

A March of Embroidered Shirts has recently taken place in Kyiv, gathering nearly 500 people. The event took place for the ninth time. The event is organized by students of Kyiv universities twice a...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

On the ability to surprise

Like bookmakers predicted, Loreen from Sweden became this year’s winner (she earned 372 points for her song “Eurphoria”) and Buranovskiye babushki from Russia with “Party...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

This day in history

1802: Russian physicist Vasiliy Petrov repeats independently the discovery of the electric arc by Sir Humphry Davy in 1800. 1867: Elected magistrates are instituted. 1918: The Soviet of People...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

Another Georgian dream

Last weekend an unprecedented action of the opposition, first in a year time, took place in Tbilisi, Georgia. It was organized by Bidzina Ivanishvili, a well-known oligarch without Georgian...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

Maksym Dondiuk wins the Healthy World Photo Competition

We have already told our readers about the documentary photographer, The Day’s Photo Contest winner Maksym Dondiuk (see No. 20, March 29, 2012) who created the project “TB...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

Turkey’s new course

CHICAGO – Turkey has recently been at the forefront of international economic and political debates. On the one hand, despite the economic crisis engulfing neighboring Europe, Turkey remains...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

Soccer god against superstition

Soccer god was on the side of the veteran of London Chelsea Didier Drogba on May 19 in Munich during the final match of the Champions League. Soccer player from Cote d’Ivoire tied the score...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

Anatolii DIMAROV: “I have lived all my life to refuse this award”

It has been difficult to get through to the writer’s apartment these days. The news that one of the oldest Ukrainian writers, the Shevchenko Prize laureate refused the Yaroslav Mudry Order awarded by...
29.05.2012 - 00:00

European Charter against European values

The Verkhovna Rada is going to discuss the notorious bill “On Principles of the Official Language Policy” drawn up by the Party of Regions members Vadym Kolesnichenko and Serhii Kivalov. This draft...

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