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

№39, (2006)

05.12.2006 - 00:00

Reinhard SCHAEFERS: “It will take a long while before visas are finally canceled”

Ukraine ranks second after Poland in the number of citizens that visit Germany. Every year about 130,000 people apply to the German Embassy for a Schengen visa, but this year there have been 350,000...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

It finally happened, despite everything

This law was a difficult one for the Ukrainian parliament to push through. At first the parliamentarians could not decide whether to examine this law draft. Only 222 MPs out of the required 226 voted...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

As long as we love

The well known and respected bards, Olha Bohomolets and Ihor Zhuk, performed two concerts at the Ukrainian House. These musical soirees, held on the eve of Remembrance Day to commemorate the victims...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

Exchange of signals

It looks as if Ukraine’s Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has begun to work hard at improving relations with Russia. On the eve of his planned visit to the US the prime minister suddenly decided to...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

Candle of mercy

On Nov. 29, 2006, the first and only hostel in Ukraine for intellectually challenged people aged 16 and over presented the results of its first year of operations. This unique hostel, founded by the...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

The Holodomor-genocide: debates in parliament

I remember an illustration in my textbook on the history of the ancient world: tiny figures of Egyptians are hoisting a huge slab, with the aid of levers, to the sloping side of a giant pyramid to...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

Song interrupted

Nazarii Yaremchuk was born in a small village near Vyzhnytsia, in the days when this locale was known perhaps only to the NKVD as a center of anti-Soviet resistance. In the 1970s this small...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

Viennese Ball in Kyiv: Getting Increasingly Popular

This year’s event gathered some 2,000 guests. Compared to last year’s ball at the National Opera, this one was less on the protocol side and more chamber-like and democratic, although the attributes...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

Who is ruling over us?

“Man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the “Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one,”...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

Not a day without a resignation

Oleksandr Moroz finally struck a bargain with Viktor Yanukovych. The bargain turned out to be very successful. The well-known socialist, Vasyl Tsushko, will take over the 300,000-strong police force...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

Moment of truth

To ratify the Act of Independence of Ukraine (Aug. 24, 1991), the Verkhovna Rada resolved to hold a referendum on Dec. 1, 1991. At the time it was a matter of necessity, primarily to neutralize the...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

Chornobyl sarcophagus is 20 years old

The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station doesn’t just mark the April anniversary. November 29 was the 20 th anniversary of the launch of the containment structure popularly known as the sarcophagus, which...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

New Testament from Khoroshiv

Khoroshiv is a small village tucked away near the border between southern Volyn and Podillia. It is part of Bilohiria raion, in Khmelnytsky oblast. To get there, you have to take the Ostroh-Shumske...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

This week in history

Dec. 5 1994: In Budapest the nuclear states, the US, UK, and Russia, sign a memorandum on providing Ukraine with security guarantees. 2004: Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko says in...
05.12.2006 - 00:00

Camiel HAMANS: “Yushchenko and Yanukovych must reach a compromise immediately”

Camiel Hamans, the General Secretary of the Netherlands delegation of the Social-Democratic fraction in the European Parliament has kept an eye on many revolutions that have taken place in Europe,...

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