№44, (2010)
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Militiamen will be instructed to issue fines for smoking
The WHO began holding training seminars for militiamen to teach law enforcement officers how to impose fines for smoking where prohibited. District militia officers will participate in the seminars....
02.09.2010 - 00:00
A camp of energy purity
This weekend near Vyshhorod, on the bank of the Desna River, an “Energy Camp” emerged. Its uniqueness lay in the fact that all the energy needs of its residents (heating water, operating computers,...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
The fruits of the economic integration
European integration remains a priority for our state, Yanukovych stated in his address on the 19th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. Ukraine’s entry into the international...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Three points on the German agenda
Germany is a very important political and economic actor in the European Union and internationally. Ukraine is only too well aware of this. This may well be the reason why President Yanukovych paid...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Teenage alcoholism on the rise
The creation of alternatives for children threatened by alcoholism is essential to overcoming this social plague. If our government wants healthy teenagers it must organize alternative pastimes:...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
In memoriam of Lviv’s Picasso
The memory of the outstanding scene designer, people’s artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, senior artist of Lviv National Opera Yevhen Lysyk (1930–91) is being...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Bilingual mania
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov once again made a show of himself while visiting the Latvian capital, Riga. He proposed to institute Russian as the second official language in this Baltic state: “I think...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Putin’s “word of an honest party man”
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has made it clear in an interview with Kommersant that police will continue to disperse rallies being held without governmental permission. In Putin’s view,...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Vacations at home
People tend to have different definitions of a vacation. This may be the reason why a poll, held by the Kyiv International Institute in June 2010, asking Ukrainians what kind of vacations they were...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Chimerical fountains in stone
A festival called “Living Stone 2010” has finished in Cherkasy. This year the festival, held for a third time, was devoted to street fountains. It took sculptors four weeks to combine water and stone...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Extraordinary session
Last Monday members of parliament cut short their vacations to rescind a discriminatory clause on local party cells. Now all parties, old and new, can take part in the October 31 elections. 264 MPs...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Art en plein air,
The international project “PORTO FRANKO-2010,” which combines visual art, music, photography, theater, cinema, and art cuisine from around the world, took place in the capital of Prykarpattia region...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
“The general plan”: a country of quality, responsibility, and effectiveness
Over the 19 years of independence Ukraine has made a huge jump from a closed society with deformed links to more a civil one. The country has already fulfilled a major goal: it has created the...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Ukrainian cinema rises from the ashes
Contemporary Ukrainian cinematography is full of contradictions. At the turn of the decade the state of Ukrainian cinema was most accurately referred to as comatose. The destructive legacy of the...
02.09.2010 - 00:00
Artistic “heatwave” sets in
While directors, actors, and other theater-related staff are getting ready to meet their audiences, the public is looking for the best shows to start the new season. First nights and anniversaries,...
















