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

№34, (2006)

31.10.2006 - 00:00

Uniform tax could ease tax burden

Ukraine’s Ministry of Labor and Social Policy has dusted off the bill “On the Uniform System of Collecting and Accounting Contributions to the Universal Compulsory State Social Insurance” and is...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

Small steps to the EU

Step by step, Ukraine is gradually drawing closer to the European Union. The latest step was the 10th Ukraine-EU Summit in Helsinki, which ended on Oct. 27, 2006, with the initialing of two...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

The rebellious Ivan Drach

Ivan Drach, a gifted and talented personality, can be called a living classic and conscience of the nation. Poetry, cinema, politics, and public activities have always been closely intertwined in...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

With whom will we “think in Ukrainian?”

The absence or drop in electoral support for parties that position themselves as democratic ones is no indicator that Ukrainian voters are disillusioned with the democratic idea as such. This has...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

Fitness marathon

A group of 230 Kyiv schoolchildren between 8 and 12 years old recently took part in a nationwide charity event, a first for Ukraine. The hosts of the Children’s Fitness Marathon were the well known...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

The price of parliamentarism

During the next plenary week Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the BYuT opposition bloc, will renew her attempt to submit a draft law to abolish parliamentary privileges but will take into...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

Waiting to be saved

ZAPORIZHIA — “The lives of 120 children in Zaporizhia are threatened by leukemia and other blood disorders. The region’s only blood cell separator is out of service.” This was a news bulletin...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

Molodist 2006 Festival: the final distribution?

The 36th Molodist International Film Festival ended at Ukraine Palace with the awards ceremony and screening of Guillermo del Toro’s The Faun’s Labyrinth on Sunday. Some of the winners are already...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

Volodymyr Svidzinsky returns to Kamianets Podilsky, Ukraine, and the world

Volodymyr Svidzinsky ended up returning to Kamianets-Podilsky. It was as though he had stepped out of a classroom onto the university quad and stopped at the end of a quiet alley, in the shade of the...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

Protests voiced over National Bank payment delays

Clients of a number of liquidate Ukrainian banks are getting ready to pitch a row of tents in front of the National Bank of Ukraine in protest against financial settlement delays. “I am 100 percent...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

Marina Balenghien’s airy images

The heart of the Molodist Film Festival, like any serious film forum, is the competition program, which determines the leaders of contemporary filmmaking and trends. But the more serious the lineup...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

China’s Losing Battle Against Corruption

China’s rulers rarely wash their dirty linen in public. So the arrest of Politburo member and Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu on corruption charges has sent shock waves across the country...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

Ukrainian language ousted from practically all spheres of life in Donetsk oblast

Studies show that more than half the residents of Donetsk oblast tend to regard themselves as Ukrainians and declare that they love our country and that nothing Ukrainian is alien to them. Meanwhile...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

They made us laugh

I think the language question is the most boring issue today. Even before the subject is hinted at, let alone broached, I wince and recoil from it. True, you can stumble on real treasures on this...
31.10.2006 - 00:00

The right to an education

Sun Circle, a support group for people with autism, once again raised a painful topic for more than 1,000 families with children suffering from autism by screening a film about kids with this disease...

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