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

№33, (2008)

28.10.2008 - 00:00

Ihor PASICHNYK: “I am simply a rector”

Everyone who has visited Ostroh Academy National University at least once in the past decade associates the revival of this famous university with the name of its rector Ihor Pasichnyk. Having...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

A new day always comes

The specter of the world financial crisis has paid a visit to Europe. However, some time was needed for the European governments to acknowledge it. When the crisis exploded in the US, few people in...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

Exhibit of contemporary Ukrainian art at the UN Office at Geneva

GENEVA — From Oct. 2 to 16 the Palais des Nations at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) hosted a Ukrainian art exhibit featuring works by the painter Petro Lebedynets, sculptor Volodymyr...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

Special theaters for special children

How does one use public transport, cross a street, or go shopping? These routine tasks are a major problem for intellectually handicapped people. Between 200,000 and 250,000 mentally handicapped...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

The truth prevails

With its vote this authoritative legislative body, comprising 785 parliamentarians from 27 EU member states, has joined the circle of countries and international organizations that have already...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

The struggle against corruption in urban planning

Ukrainians are no longer shocked by the frequent conflicts that arise from illegal construction projects. Roughly 10 percent of all articles that appear in newspapers and Internet publications are...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

Belated triumph of Holodomor victims

The European Union is founded on reconciliation, the belief that we can create a better future by acknowledging our past in all its brutality. Germany has justly acknowledged and is trying to atone...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

The Cossack Palestine

The Samara St. Nicholas’s Monastery occupies a special place among Ukraine’s monastic residences. The history of this bastion of Orthodoxy is inseparably linked with that of the Zaporozhian Sich....
28.10.2008 - 00:00

Window of possibility

Ukraine’s chances of getting the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) this December are slim. But it still has a chance to get it at NATO’s 60th jubilee summit that will be held in Germany and France in...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

Ambitious festival

The Berdiansk International Film Festival is called Bryhantyna (The Brigantine). Today the organizers of the festival, founded in 1998, have decided to build a film studio. During a recent news...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

Unique forest museum opens in Volyn oblast

The Volyn Forest Museum has opened in the Lopaten forest tract in Kivertsi raion. According to Ukrinform, the initiative to launch the museum came from Bohdan Kolisnyk, the head of the regional...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

“Ukrainian politics is like a communal apartment where the tenants are constantly arguing over a frying pan”

Despite Ukraine’s many political problems, Myroslav Popovych, director of the Hryhorii Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy and member of the National Academy of Sciences, is confident that Ukraine is...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

Ukraine’s idling parliament

There is a glimmer of a hope that Ukraine’s MPs will finally figure out the crisis and the elections on Tuesday. A parliamentary task force is supposed to draw up a single bill on minimizing the...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

Ukrainian emigre archives

Tempora Publishers of Kyiv, which is rightly called the Atlas that supports Ukrainian culture, recently issued an important publication, a monograph by Maryna Paliienko, entitled Archival Centers of...
28.10.2008 - 00:00

Swiss economic forum in Kyiv

The Geneva Lake Region’s Economic Forum will be held on Nov. 3 at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine in Kyiv. The representatives of the two French-speaking Swiss cantons situated on the...

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