№40, (2006)
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Inflation curbed too late
The November decrease in the price of non-food consumer goods (0.2 percent) and the moderate increase in food prices (0.6 percent) and services (6.5 percent) led to a decrease in inflation in...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Guillaume de Beauplan and “the land of the Cossacks”
When a child is born, its destiny is known only by the higher power and, perhaps, the mysterious goddess Fortune. Who could foresee that a boy, who was born in Normandy in 1600 into a noble family of...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
This week in history
Dec. 12 1818: The Institute for Young Ladies of Noble Birth opens in Poltava. 1988: The first test flight of the AN-225 (Mria) cargo aircraft takes place in Kyiv. Dec. 13 1941: The Nazis arrest...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Friends, gathered by <I>Camouflage</I>
Ukraine’s Armed Forces marked their professional holiday on Dec.6. After the meeting with the President and all the necessary honors some defendants of the Fatherland went on celebrating in the...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
The last game and no victory
Kyiv Dynamo’s last match of the UEFA Champions League group tournament against Madrid Real was no different from the same teams’ game two years ago on the same ground in the same tournament. The...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Budget totalizator
On Dec. 7 Prime Minister Yanukovych confidently declared that President Yushchenko will sign the 2007 state budget bill passed by the Ukrainian parliament. Earlier, the Ukrainian president made...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Wagner and Ukraine
The works of Richard Wagner opened a new chapter in the history of world drama and musical art. It has long surpassed the limits of space and time. Today this composer is being written and argued...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Report on Yanukovych visit to the US
Last week Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych reported to President Viktor Yushchenko on the results of his four-day visit to the US. As the president’s press service announced, during the meeting on...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
My Kamianets
After Lviv, Kamianets-Podilsky is one of my favorite cities, so I enjoy every visit. The residents are not certain when their city was founded, although everyone agrees that it is one of a handful of...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Relics do not burn
The recently opened exhibit at Dormition Cathedral is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical-Cultural Preserve and the 995th anniversary of the founding of the...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Kernel of the problem
The Ukrainian Grain Association proposed an evaluation of the grain export situation during a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council. “The decision to curtail exports has notably...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Pictures filled with time
An exhibit of paintings and graphics from the private collections of the Lutsk artist Karel Yakubek recently opened at the National Taras Shevchenko Museum, where a vernissage was also held. This is...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
Yurii Poliachenko: “A diagnosis for the nation”
Nearly one million people in Ukraine are addicted to drugs or alcohol. These are people who in one way or another have ended up in medical or law enforcement institutions and declared their special...
12.12.2006 - 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,”...
12.12.2006 - 00:00
European proposal
Presenting the European Commission’s new proposals aimed at deepening the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), which also envisages cooperation between Ukraine and the EU, European Commissioner for...














