№35, (2004)
14.12.2004 - 00:00
Information Breakthrough
The crisis is over, to use the medical parlance. Slowly but surely, life is returning to normal. As Independence Square has emptied, the television receiver is no longer the focus of family life. Not...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
A Temple or a Canvassing Station?
The current presidential campaign in Ukraine is rich in overwhelming and staggering surprises, laying bare good and bad things that have been kept away from the public eye for decades. For example,...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
Festival of Triumph
Last Thursday the final gala concert of the Colors of Hope Festival, organized by the Kyiv City Center of Youth Social Services, was held in Kyiv. The gala presented the winners of district-level...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
A Glaring Blot
In its final match of the Champions League group tournament, Dynamo Kyiv suffered a humiliating 0:3 defeat from Bayern Leverkusen of Germany. Not only has this defeat eliminated the Kyivans from...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
A Business Project for a Civic Stance
The term civil society has gained much currency of late. Yet when we speak about the third sector in Ukraine, it’s difficult to define its role in society clearly. A friend of mine, a manager of an...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
This week in history
December 14. 1918. Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky of Ukraine abdicated power in favor of the Directory. 1943. Soviet troops took the Ukrainian city of Cherkasy from the Germans. December 15. 1896. The...
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THE IMPERATIVE OF UNITY
In the early 1890s the nationally oriented Ukrainian intelligentsia faced a number of urgent and difficult questions that could not be evaded, ignored, or shelved, for they needed an honest, sincere...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
Irreconcilable Reactions
As politicians throughout the world continue to comment on the election crisis in Ukraine, Moscow continues to pollute the information space with disapproving remarks directed at the Ukrainian...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
One Language for 135 Nations
Early in December, young representatives of Kyiv’s ethnic associations and communities took part in a competition entitled “Blossom, O Language, Shining with Verbal Brilliance,” in which they...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
Human Rights: Festive and Humdrum Days
Last Friday the world observed Human Rights Day. Had this day been marked a month before, we would have again been spouting the same old story about endless human rights abuses, a subject that has...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
What Cactuses Whisper
Indeed, what are they whispering? What surprises are hidden in a night-bound train at a border checkpoint? What is beautiful about Mojacar? Don’t rush to strain your imagination and rekindle your...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
The Last Hero
Last Thursday evening it was announced that President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine signed a decree to confer the title of Hero of Ukraine and the Order of State to Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
Iraq’s Silent Dead
Evidence is mounting that America’s war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of civilian Iraqis, and perhaps well over one hundred thousand. Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United...
14.12.2004 - 00:00
Wlodzimerz Cimoszevicz:
Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimerz Cimoszevicz, in an interview with Ukrainian journalists after the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, looked more optimistic than during his previous visits to Kyiv....













