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, (2009)

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Bologna process: failure or fresh start?

It has been four years since the start of the Bologna process in Ukraine. However, students as the immediate participants of this educational innovation cannot see either noticeable progress or the...
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NEWS

Bell-ringers to be trained in LutskThe Volyn Seminary has launched a bell-ringing group, which was blessed by the Bishop of Lutsk and Volyn Nifont. The classes take place in the ancient Lutsk castle...
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MY YEAR — MY DAY-2009

1. Traditionally, what are your personal ratings of the most important events in 2009, in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world?2. Do you think that Ukraine and Ukrainians have changed over the past...
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“On the Road to the Bright World”

That evening the Luigi Sturzo Institute was unusually quiet, with only one conference hall lit — and this in the merrily bustling center of Rome shortly before Christmas, with hospitably open...
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Nice springboard for achievements,

The participants of the 19th annual Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program have returned to Ukraine, full of positive emotions from their sojourn in Canada and knowledge they acquired while working in...
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Youth should not stand aside

The music of the Ukrainian Georgian band Gorgisheli is caused not so much by the creative striving for originality, although this search is a perpetual process for every musician, as by life itself....
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This week in history

1653: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s troops defeat the Polish army at Zhvanets. 1917: Soviet Russia’s Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom) issues a decree that transfers education from religious...
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Ukraine joins European “knowledge bank”

In Lviv Ukraine officially signed an agreement to link UARNET, the Ukrainian network of fiber optic electronic communication, to the Polish academic system of communication Pioneer, which is a part...
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Golden standard of sociology

Traditionally, Ukrainians strongly associate sociology with elections and ratings. There is nothing strange about it, as elections are a permanent phenomenon in Ukraine. However, in reality ratings...
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On Kazakh worldview

Olzhas Suleimenov, a poet, writer and literary critic, a Kazakh public and political activist, and a diplomat, was born on May 18, 1936, in Almaty into the family of an officer of a Kazakh cavalry...
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Igor Chubais:

The readers of Den/The Day are familiar with the name of Igor Chubais. His article “Who Destroyed Stalinism” attracted keen interest. In it Igor Chubais stressed the special role played by the...
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Why is social advertising needed?

More than a dozen nominations, hundreds of participants, thousands of posters, media articles, and commercials urging women to reject abortion, calling for efforts against AIDS, for helping orphans...
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Viktoria Poliova: “Singing is paradise on earth”

Viktoria Poliova has written three symphonies, the ballet Gagaku (based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story Jigoku hen [Hell Screen], 1918), and countless orchestral, choral, vocal, and chamber...
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Anti-crisis ABC of art

The catalogue presents the works of 102 artists and sculptors. According to exhibit organizers, it took four months to choose the exposition, its prime criterion being the ability to give a full...
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At the rear of the rival

Today one can frequently see billboards that claim “The Donbas does not change its convictions. Yanukovych is our president!” in the east of Ukraine. But they prove wrong as it does change. According...

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