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

№61, (2010)

02.11.2010 - 00:00

This day in history

1923: Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR adopts a decree instituting the OGPU State Political Directorate of the Soviet Secret Police (Cheka) and places it under the Moscow-...
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Roadside progress and highway deadlock

The burdensome list of economic compromises is the prize Ukraine has received in return for better relations with Russia. It includes the accords on the manufacture of nuclear fuel, in accordance...
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When Tabachnyk can be right

Dmytro Tabachnyk is a unique person. No one else from his party is able to look so sincerely in the faces of millions of Ukrainians from television screens, or a few chosen interlocutors in a cozy...
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Labor market to be “whitened”

Although the government promised to address the problem of the shadow economy in Ukraine already in spring, it has yet to move beyond merely professing good intentions. The Day previously reported...
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Knowledge about the country in new intellectual forms

On October 27 Chernivtsi residents could see The Day’s photo exhibit for the second time. Last time, in 2007, a hundred photos were displayed in the halls of the Chernivtsi Art Museum, next...
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Twenty years of highly successful Ukraine-Poland cooperation

October 13 marked 20 years since The Day the foreign ministers of Poland and what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, signed a declaration on the main directions of Ukrainian-Polish...
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Fifteen-year-old “coryphaei”

The band marked its birthday without its founder, artistic director, and conductor, the recently deceased Bohodar Kotorovych. The anniversary concert took place at the National Philharmonic Society...
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Taras FILENKO: I dream to make Lysenko known all over the world

Recently several Ukrainian cities have hosted presentations of the album book The World of Mykola Lysenko. National Identity, Music and Politics of Ukraine in the 19th-early 20th century by Tamara...
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The Polonization of Ukrainian politics

Last month and a half has seen ample attention accorded to Ukraine in the European Parliament. Actually, there hasn’t been a week in Brussels without a visit of important politicians from Kyiv,...
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Sivan Rotem unites classics and folk songs

It is common knowledge that nations, in order to understand each other better, have to speak the language of culture. Other countries’ embassies in Ukraine take part in the organization of...
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For a “green” life

Whenever we use water, log the woods, or dig coal we are guided by purely material interests and a desire to satisfy our needs at any cost. The latest report of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says...
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New edition of the Reims Gospel published

The St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv hosted the presentation of a new edition of a unique relic, the Reims Gospel. The book was presented by the Encyclopedia of Ukraine Foundation (based in Toronto,...
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Islamabad is ready to move forward. What about Kyiv?

Pakistan has recently been in the spotlight of global news because of the devastating flood, which affected one-third of the country’s area and caused huge damages. Lately this country is...
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Frederic came back to Warsaw

Two centuries have passed since Frederic Chopin was born in an outbuilding of the Skarbeks’ mansion in Zelazowa Wola, 50 kilometers west from Warsaw. Although the composer left the world in...
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Inventions and innovations from Sweden

Within the framework of The Days of Sweden in Lviv the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts is hosting the exhibit “Creative Women: Inventions and Innovations from Sweden.”“Usually people have a...

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