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

№51, (2011)

29.09.2011 - 00:00

A GULAG artist

Artist Volodymyr Kutkin who has served a nearly five-year sentence (for non-existing plot against Fatherland) in the Vyatka Camp, has not been recompensed for the period torn out from his life,...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Medvedev nominates Putin and he reciprocates. Thunderous applause

On Monday, Russia’s ruling party, United Russia’s convention, made headlines in the world’s leading media after Vladimir Putin suggested that Dmitry Medvedev head United Russia...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

70 years of sorrow

On September 29th, 1941, about 8 a.m. Jews who lived in Kyiv gathered on the corner of Melnykova and Dehtiarivska streets. They brought money, documents, valuable things and warm clothes with them,...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Forests to be legalized within 18 months

Europe was going to close its borders to illegal timber on January 1, 2012. This decision was made two years ago, when European Parliament members accepted a proposal to ban illegal trade in wood....
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Coming back from oblivion

The employees of the Dnipropetrovsk-based Yavornytsky National Historical Museum rejoice at a sudden discovery. A small ancient painting restored by Kharkiv specialists turned out to be the work of...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska in Kyiv subway

The Poems in the Subway campaign was launched on September 26, aiming at promotion of contemporary poetry. Its core activity is posting of Polish poems in the capital’s subway stations, from...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

This day in history

1917: The Small Rada in Kyiv adopts a declaration of the General Secretariat, confirming Ukrainian statehood and outlining the nation-state-building guidelines. 1920: Makhno’s Revolutionary...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Will Kosach family members be reinterred in Kolodiazhne?

Without doubt, the arrival of the Swiss owner of the law firm in Lugano Roberto Haab became the main event of the international symposium. As the guest noted, there are no descendants of the...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Exhibits as a model of the attitude to the world

The founder of the museum, Ph.D. in culturology Svitlana Kytova has been “deciphering” the embroidered towels armed with the deep knowledge of ethnography, literature, psychology and...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Lemkivshchyna is alive!

Lemkivshchyna, also known as Lemkovyna, Lemkovshchina or Lemkowszczyzna in Polish, is a scenic territory traditionally inhabited by Lemkos. This territory stretches from the Beskids (a traditional...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Europe’s bad mistake

This Polish politician, human rights activist, ex-President of Poland (1990-95), ex-leader of the Solidarity trade-union movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, electrician without a post-...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Sannikov being tortured at Mahilou pretrial detention facility

Ex-presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov of the Republic of Belarus, currently political pri-soner, is being transferred from the penal colony of Navapolatsk to that of Babruysk. There are reasons...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Seeking humanistic ideals

This year the world marks the 150th birth anniversary of the outstanding writer, philosopher, artist, musicians, and first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore. In Ukraine the...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Simply super

The National Circus of Ukraine opened a new season under this name. The main number of the program is “The attraction of predatory animals,” which involves ten predators, and the main “stars” are two...
29.09.2011 - 00:00

Michel PLATINI: “This country will host a great Euro championship”

UEFA president Michel Platini said on September 27 that Ukraine was ready to host Euro-2012. The chief European football inspector made his conclusion after his two-day inspection of the four...

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