№38, (2006)
28.11.2006 - 00:00
Pottery: the beginning of the end
KHARKIV — The famous Budy Pottery Factory in Kharkiv region has “expired,” or to put it another way, gone bankrupt. Today no one can afford to spend so much energy on glazing pottery. The economy is...
28.11.2006 - 00:00
Cooperative societies revive trust
TERNOPIL — According to Mykhailo Mykolenko, the head of the Ternopil oblast council, developing cooperative societies is the way of the future for Ukrainian villages. He voiced this thesis in...
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Crimea without fresh water
SEVASTOPIL-SYMFEROPIL — I carried out an experiment. Walking down Velyka Morska St. in Sevastopil, I stopped 10 city residents and asked them the same question: “What caused the city water supply...
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Time and destiny revisited
Sovremennik is now on what could be called a jubilee tour of Kyiv: once a Moscow cult theater, it celebrated its 50 th anniversary last spring. In Soviet times, theaters could tour for up to a month...
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Trans-European border
For illegal migrants making their way to Europe from Asia and Russia, one of the biggest routes “from the Varangians to the Greeks” crosses Ukraine. Last week politicians held a roundtable to discuss...
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“The time has come for an independent church”
Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) kindly agreed to discuss his recent visit to the Ukrainian Orthodox community in...
28.11.2006 - 00:00
Viktor CHERNOMYRDIN: “We need each other”
Since 2001 Viktor Chernomyrdin, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, has represented the interests of the Russian state in Ukraine. During this time...
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The stormy day
(Conclusion) The second part of this article does not answer two questions. First, why did Volodymyr Svidzinsky stress that he was a Soviet civil servant? Similar documents from that historical...
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Is the victim to blame?
In 2006 alone 900 women have been killed by their husbands during drunken brawls and other types of altercations — by men who had pledged to love them forever, in joy as well as in sorrow. There are...
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Non-Christian Orthodox believers
Experts have begun noting an interesting trend: many people are returning to ancient religious beliefs, including ridnovirstvo, belief in a single deity known as Rid. All this has a simple...
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Candle of hope
The death of any person is an extinguished candle, an irreparable loss for the nation and the world. In the accursed years of 1932-33, millions of indestructible candles representing our...
28.11.2006 - 00:00
A historical reference
The media has reported that a movement called “Crimea-Sevastopol-Russia,” whose main goal is to help the Crimean Peninsula reunite with Russia, was founded in Russia on Nov. 9. At a special press...
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Change of orientation
It looks as if Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko has completely rejected the idea of building a union state with Russia and is thereby changing the state’s foreign policy orientation. During a...
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Professor Stanislav KULCHYTSKY: “Stalin sought to eliminate Ukraine as a national state”
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is facing a political decision whether to recognize the Holodomor of 1932-33 as genocide against the people of Ukraine. Parliamentarians will have to make a moral choice...
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Diagnostician of our time
“Phenomenon: a rare andunusual occurrence or an individual remarkable and exceptional in all respects” From the Dictionary of Foreign Words
Are we always aware that perhaps the most...

















