№34, (2007)
13.11.2007 - 00:00
Lessons of the Holodomor
Next year Ukraine will mark the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, which claimed nearly 10 million Ukrainian lives in 1932- 33. It should be noted that Ukraine’s parliament passed a bill recognizing...
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Ukrainian patriarch visits U.S.
Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine paid a pastoral and diplomatic visit to the United States in late October 2007. During his visit, assisted by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of...
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Saakashvili shortening his presidential term
TBILISI-President Michael Saakashvili of Georgia has approved a decision that satisfies everyone by moving the date of the presidential elections from the fall of 2008 to Jan. 5, 2008. Saakashvili...
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How to “ease” the laws for orphans?
Citizens of Ukraine and foreigners turn to the State Department for Adoption and Protection of Children’s Rights for two reasons. First, because childless families that want to adopt children must...
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Risks of poverty
Few people remember the saying “Poverty is not a crime but a swinish trick.” These days, people in every corner of the planet are aware that poverty is a phenomenon unworthy of a human being. In 2000...
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Music of the spheres
The voice of the pipe organ reaches out to us from the depths of time. This instrument first appeared in Europe in the 7th century: together with a choir, it accompanied the divine service in...
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Soccer fans will feel comfortable
The deadline for completing the construction of Dnipro Stadium, where the Euro-2012 soccer championship matches will be held, has been extended again. Although the Dnipropetrovsk authorities had...
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The most elegant kind of sport
The equestrian pursuit of dressage looks very simple at first glance, especially when the horse is obedient to the rider. But this simplicity is the result of lengthy training and the “eradication”...
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Unique surgery
When Roman Zimenko’s daughter was going into first grade, her father was not at home: he was having a pancreatomy, an operation to remove the pancreas. The surgery was a success. Physicians say that...
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More than 200 architectural monuments in Kyiv were created by Germans
The belfries of the Assumption Cathedral at the Kyiv Cave Monastery and St. Sophia’s Cathedral, the Ivan Franko Theater and the National Opera, the monuments to Prince Volodymyr and Taras Shevchenko...
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This week in history
Nov. 13 1708: Russian troops under Aleksandr Menshikov’s command seize Hetman Mazepa’s capital of Baturyn. Most of the defenders and local residents are massacred. 2004: The Central Election...
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A good dog called Franyk
Yurii Andrukhovych is a cosmopolitan. Ivano-Frankivsk is an oblast center located in western Ukraine, which is eclipsed by grander and showier Lviv. My conversation with Yurii Andrukhovych about...
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Youth agora
This article was already underway when I got to know, in different circumstances, students from several Ukrainian universities. My first impression was that of a breath of fresh air. What I saw was...
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Retro folk
The exhibition hall of the National League of Ukrainian Folk Art Masters offers a trip down memory lane, where visitors can admire the Ukrainian people’s ancient crafts and feast their eyes on the...
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Ankara’s reaction
Many experts think that the recent decision of the Turkish parliament to permit Turkish army troops, whose numbers have reached 100,000 to 150,000 soldiers, to carry out military operations against...

















