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, (2011)

09.06.2011 - 00:00

Punishment for courage

Latvia’s political elite is divided on the outcome of last Thursday’s presidential elections when the incumbent President Valdis Zatler lost to the former banker, Andris Berzins, in the...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

Ukrainian wins the Junior Roland Garros-2011

Seventeen-year old Maryna Zanevska, together with the Russian Irina Khromacheva, defeated the Russian-Dutch couple Victoria Kan/Demi Schuurs (6:4, 7:5) in the Junior Roland Garros-2011, www....
09.06.2011 - 00:00

“I want to die like Titian did, 90 years old and still painting!”

The exhibition of the legendary master, the well-known “sixtier” Iryna Levytska was launched at the Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine. More than 50 works in different techniques are on...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

This day in history

1847: Nicholas I of Russia orders Taras Shevchenko to be exiled as a private with the Russian military garrison in Orsk, a small fort near Orenburg, in the vicinity of the Ural Mountains, “under the...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

The strategic goal of the Australian Diaspora

You could hardly find Stefan ROMANIV, Secretary General of the World Congress of Ukrainians (WCU), at his home in Australia. He frequently visits Ukrainian communities abroad, but most often he...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

A man ahead of his time

Blessed be Tashkent, a city that is called a breadbasket even in times of civil unrest! Yet one’s daily bread has to be earned. Perhaps for this reason, the 15-year-old schoolboy Tolia...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

Thanks to competition popular Ukrainian literature has appeared

The All-Ukrainian literature competition Coronation of Word has entered its second decade. Recently the capital’s ACCO international exhibition hall hosted the 11th ceremony of awarding the...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

Borys Kolesnikov: It is time to get scissors and a red ribbon…

Last Wednesday, accompanied by about 50 journalists, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov made a fast-track examination of the level of preparation of the four Ukrainian...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

Traveling to fortress Kodak

Dnipropetrovsk — The earth ramparts of this fortress are located on the Dnipro picturesque bend near the southern outskirts of Dnipropetrovsk. According to project initiators, this provides a...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

Agrarian showcase is starting

In Kyiv the Second International Agrarian Investment Forum “The World Food Security: Challenges and Investment Opportunities for the Agrarian Sector,” organized according to the program...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

National greenhouse cucumbers are the safest for the time being

Europe is still stricken by a “vegetable panic.” One country after another is sealing its borders to European cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. The unknown infection that triggered an outbreak...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

On censorship in social networks

The Facebook account of the well-known Ukrainian blogger and journalist Mykola Sukhomlyn has disappeared. His account was a bulletin board for political jokes, a collection of political cartoons...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

Portugal veers to the right

Portugal – The snap parliamentary election held on June 5 in Portugal didn’t bring any startling results. As both the experts and the numerous sociological surveys predicted, the centre...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

Maryna VRODA: It seems to me that I improve when making films

The Palme d’Or of the Cannes Festival is the highest cinematographic award. This year the Ukrainian film director Maryna Vroda won the short films contest with her 15-minute film The Cross...
09.06.2011 - 00:00

Poland will finance the excavation of NKVD victims’ graves in Volyn

LUTSK— We previously reported that volynian archaeologists, searching for the remains of the Polish king Casimir’s medieval castle in the old part of Volodymyr-Volynsky, accidentally discovered a...

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