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, (2008)

09.12.2008 - 00:00

By fear United!

There are tons of paper covered with wisdoms on globalization and today’s interconnected world, but if anyone had still any doubts to what extend we are really intertwined with each other, the...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

St. Nicholas will make children’s dreams come true

Kyiv is hosting a charitable event, “Help St. Nicholas —Make the Child’s Dream Come True,” Ukrainska Pravda reports. The event, being held on December 5-31, is supposed to create a veritable feast...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

A great experiment

(Continued from The Day No. 37)“WE DID NOT STOP SHORT OF SHOOTING THOUSANDS...”As mentioned earlier, the Ukrainian Independentists, the left wing of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers’ Party (...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

The Party of Regions and BYuT

There is no telling what the outcome of the talks between the Party of Regions and BYuT will be. There is a difference between setting up a coalition within the comfortable confines of one’s...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

End of populism

The government’s Economic Committee endorsed the bill on allocating an additional 400 million hryvnias to compensate for the depreciated savings Uk­raini­an citizens had in the former USSR...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

Crisis as remedy

A decade ago, the world was very much different. It is hard to overstate the experience of all those who raised Ukraine up from its knees after the horrible crisis in the 1990s. Quite a few of these...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

Painted theater

The art exhibit “Stage Settings. 2008 Season,” organized by the Theater Center at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy was made up of works by Kyiv drama production designers. (The author of the project is Andrii...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

Passions for surgeon Mykola Amosov

Mykola Amosov would have been 95 last Saturday. When it was still October, it suddenly occurred to me that I need to describe the talented medicine reformer’s professional and human traits through...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

World Bank prescribes recovery actions

The Ukrainian economy needs a prescription to overcome the crisis in its principal sectors. Troubles in the banking, building, steel-making, and chemical sectors is only the tip of the iceberg that...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

Sponsors’ love not enough for everyone

I have seen this woman before, thought I to myself. The mother of a family with ten children stuck in my memory because she looked as if she were their oldest sister-not tall and slim as Thumbelina,...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

Jazz explosion

On December 11-14 the international jazz festival Jazz Bez will take place in Ternopil. The festival was established by the popular art union Dzyga and the Kyiv-based Polish Institute eight years ago...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

On creativity

The head of the working group of political and economic reform of the Partnership Committee US-EU on the questions of Ukraine, ex-ambassador of the US to Ukraine Steven Pifer was one of 35 associate...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

Doctor for everyone

In the past year the Crimea ranked among the top Ukrainian regions for implementing family practice with its 156 institutions of family practice, some 280 general practitioners, and over 300...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

Merry-making competitions

For this weekend the problem of family outings was settled: the Ukrainian-Japanese Center at the Kyiv Po­lytechnic Institute (KPI) invited everyone to take part in a sports festival that is...
09.12.2008 - 00:00

Ukrainians choose Tango Tempo

Each December the biggest and the most prestigeous international festival-competition called the Global Battle of Bands ends with a gala concert in London. The main intrigue of the impresa is that...

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