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

№45, (2010)

07.09.2010 - 00:00

Queuing from birth

Fifty million people! In ten years that will be the population of Ukraine. At least that is what Viktor Yanukovych promised during his election campaign. Last year, 530,000 Ukrainians were born — 35...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

A lesson from the future

Information technologies are developing at a breathtaking speed. Sadly, Internet is scarcely used in Ukrainian education. Meanwhile, it is quite popular with young people. Often students use the...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

Festival amidst slagheaps

At the turn of summer and autumn, the Ukrainian Fair-exhibition of folk art was held in Donetsk, probably for the first time in history of the mining capital. The range of goods offered on trays...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

Love “recipes”

On September 15-17 the Donetsk National Academic Ukrainian Music Drama Theater’s company of actors will perform at the stage of Russian Drama theater (creative director Marko Brovun). This...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

Obama announces end to Iraq war

US President Barack Obama has officially announced the end of the military operation in Iraq, noting that the US “has paid a huge price to put the future of Iraq in the hands of its people.” The...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

Misplaced skepticism

The recently-appointed head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Valerii Soldatenko, made some interesting comments on his vision of the Holodomor issue in an interview with Kommersant-...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

EVENT

Forbes to come out in Ukraine The Ukrainian Integrated Media Holding has obtained a license for publishing Forbes magazine in Ukraine. This American finance and economics magazine has been...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

Carriers of gods

An initiative to remind citizens and guests to the city of Lviv about the charms of equestrian transport appeared several months ago. Hence, “Weekend Riding” was organized — an...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

This day in history

1875: Oleksandr Murashko, a noted painter, one of the founders and first professors of the Ukrainian Art Academy, is born in Kyiv. 1891: The first Ukrainian immigrants arrive in Canada. 1943: The...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

Peace this time?

JERUSALEM – The imminent resumption in Washington of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is good news. But whether these talks will lead to an agreement, let alone within one year as US...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

Will Ukrainians do without local housing authorities in five years time?

Residents of an apartment house in Kyiv’s downtown Podil district have not seen dirty stairs, peeling walls, burned out bulbs, or spilling stinking dumpsters in the backyard for two years now. The...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

A sacred object in high-tech style

Work on the restoration of Kaniv’s Taras Shevchenko Museum is over. The museum’s interior has been completely reconstructed according to architect Larysa Skoryk’s sketches, the...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

Paata Burchuladze will sing in Kyiv for the first time

People call him “Chaliapin of the 21st century.” Burchuladze went through the brilliant school of La Scala, where he underwent a three-year training course headed by famous Giullieta...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

Solar power stations in Crimea

The Active Solar Company (Kyiv) plans to launch two solar power stations with capacities of 1 MW and 1.5 MW in Crimea in mid-September of 2010. As the CEO of five subsidiaries of Active Solar Serhii...
07.09.2010 - 00:00

A miracle from Kosmach

How can one attract tourists to a village? This is not something that Mykhailo Didyshyn, a resident of famous Kosmach, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, has to ask himself. People from all over Ukraine come to...

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