№44, (2011)
06.09.2011 - 00:00
(Un)satisfying outlook
Food prices would remain stable for the rest of the year, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Prysiazhniuk told journalists on August 31. “We are not concerned about any...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
A shot from a black Browning
Never before in decades had the Kyiv Opera House seen as brilliant an assembly as it did on September 1, 1911. You could see all the high society there, including those who resided in the...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
The Internet in Ukrainian
Euronews, one of the most known world news companies has recently started broadcasting in Ukrainian. This event was timed to the 20th Ukraine’s Independence anniversary. Even the President...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
This day in history
1672: Hetman Petro Doroshenko of Ukraine seizes Kamianets-Podilsky. 1924: Date of birth in Kyiv of Mykhailo Braichevsky, Ukrainian historian, archaeologist, man of letters, public figure, to...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
Another gas war?
Ukraine’s stated desire to reorganize NAK Naftohaz Ukrainy caused another round of verbal attacks between Russia and Ukraine in the gas sector. It all started with President Viktor Yanukovych...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
On the art of being a leader
The current vacation season of the Kyiv Philharmonic Society was adorned by the concert with the eloquent name “The Symphony of Love” by the National Chamber Ensemble, the Kyiv Soloists...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
Oleksii PODOLSKY: Investigating the murder of Kravchenko holds the key to the Kuchma case
The trial of General Oleksii Pukach has been adjourned for a month until October 3. Meanwhile, the journalist Heorhii Gongadze’s widow Myroslava insists that Pukach be tried in an open court...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
The new season: decisive and tough
Today the Verkhovna Rada starts its ninth session of the sixth convocation. The MPs will return after the long vacations. However, many of them spent the summer in Kyiv near the Pechersk Court. The...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
National Security Council is a must
Fifteen years ago Ukraine saw the establishment of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), a leading think tank that was supposed to analyze risks and challenges for this country. Meanwhile...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
Europe’s shaky foundations
BERLIN – Slowly, word is getting round – even in Germany – that the financial crisis could destroy the European unification project in its entirety, because it demonstrates, quite...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
Distinguished Slavic scholar Giovanna Brogi has been awarded honorary professorship of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy
Giovanna Brogi-Berkoff is one of the most respected authorities in the Slavic studies field in the West. She is Polish, Russian and Ukrainian studies scholar, Director of the Institute of Languages...
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Kyiv Suite in Bukovyna
An exhibit to selebrate the centennial of a famous Ukrainian painter Serhii Shyshko has been opened in Chernivtsi Regional Art Museum. The board of art exhibitions at the Ministry of Culture and...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
Short-lived love
This writer clearly noticed in late August that the official Russian media that strictly follow the Moscow leadership’s line began to show a new tonality. But let us recall the beginning. In...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
Ukraine loses its way
PRAGUE – Since the election of President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010, Ukraine has experienced a significant and alarming deterioration in its democratic framework. Fundamental tenets of a democratic...
06.09.2011 - 00:00
The thorny path to freedom
Russian authorities are stubbornly refusing to officially register the People’s Freedom Party (its popular Russian acronym being Parnas). There is little likelihood of any courts of law in...













