№6, (2009)
24.02.2009 - 00:00
Ukrainian Gleb Garanich wins international “photo Oscar”
The website Politics and Culture of Ukraine (PiK Ukrainy) reports that the Kyiv photographer Gleb Garanich has become the winner of the most authoritative contest in the sphere of photojournalism,...
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This week in history
Feb. 24 1919: Ukraine and Poland sign a truce. 1990: The Ukrainian Public Cultural Society, its membership comprised of members of Poland’s Ukrainian community, holds a convention in Warsaw and...
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Ternopil risks sinking in its own garbage
Ternopil—Young residents of Ternonpil do not even remember that their city used to have the status of Ukraine’s cleanest city. I’m not going to describe how public utility services are operating or...
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Access to history
Under President Viktor Yushchenko’s recent edict on the declassification and study of archival documents related to the Ukrainian liberation movement, political repressions, and the Holodomor in...
24.02.2009 - 00:00
Love conquers all
On Feb. 10–18, 2009, the best photos of The Day’s 10th International Photo Contest were temporarily on display in the Picture Gallery of the Kyiv Polytechnical Institute (KPI). The newspaper and its...
24.02.2009 - 00:00
Somalian captivity forces unlikely read
The released Faina sailors have returned home and are now in the company of their relatives. Most of the crew members are residents of Odesa. One of the seamen, assistant captain Oleksandr PRYSUKHA...
24.02.2009 - 00:00
Goal that missed the target
When the players of Kyiv’s Dynamo beat Portugal’s Porto in a visiting game of the Champions League, few people stressed that the Ukrainian team fired a single shot into the net of the hosts of the...
24.02.2009 - 00:00
Olena Bondarenko among top 30 women tennis players
According to the recently published WTA’s ranking of professional women tennis players, Serena Williams from the US continues to top the list. Ukrinform (Ukrainian National News Agency) reports that...
24.02.2009 - 00:00
For shame!
Feb. 15, 2009, marked the 20th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. On February 12 a gala concert in honor of Afghan veterans who had to fight in that senseless war took...
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Art returns to Ukraine
On February 12 the Ukrainian Canadian Halyna Horun-Levytsky presented this icon to Ukraine at the Consulate General in Toronto. Precious and interesting canvases by Vasyl and Mykola Krychevsky...
24.02.2009 - 00:00
International Mother Language Day marked on February21
“I will first stand by the edge of an abyssAnd will suddenly understand,deep in my sadness,That there’s nothing in the worldLike a song in the Ukrainian language.”
Leonid KISELIOV (1946–1968...
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Poetic photography
The German school of photography has enjoyed world renown since the 1920s, since the time of legendary art society Bauhaus that united dozens of brilliant photographers. An exhibit of Bauhaus photos...
24.02.2009 - 00:00
They way it should be done
The last week I had a pleasure to hear from Volodymyr Lytvyn that he reads this column. I feel then especially obliged to mention his visit to the European Parliament last week in Brussels. Rada’s...
24.02.2009 - 00:00
Freedom was his behest
Dr. James Mace, a noted US journalist, scholar, and public figure, would have celebrated his 56th birthday on February 18. All those who knew, loved, and respected him mourned the irreparable loss on...
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Deadly gambling
“I began to play when I was still a kid. Then I dropped it because I got married and had children. When they grew up, I got to it again. My wife abandoned me, my parents died, and I remained alone....















