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

№69, (2011)

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This day in history

1932: Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree banning sales of potatoes in the raions that “maliciously fail to carry out their task of monitoring collective-farm potato stocks,” listing 12...
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An order for impunity

On November 18 MP Yurii Karmazin made a sensational declaration in the Verkhovna Rada: he called upon the leaders of the state to take measures for the full-scale investigation of the crime against...
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“We all should be flying through our destiny over the vanity of life”

Nazarii Yaremchuk is a popular variety singer. Not only did he have a unique voice, but he was able to penetrate into the song’s soul. That is the reason why millions of admirers loved him. I...
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Marianna SABLINA: Music should be good, interesting, and simply genuine

The National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine hosts a concert dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Shchedryk Children’s Choir, which has no analogues in Ukraine, and maybe in the...
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Leonid KRAVCHUK: If, back in 1990-91, I had decided that the people weren’t ready, we wouldn’t have independence to this day

Twenty years back the historic referendum of December 1 registered more than 90 percent votes for national independence and for Leonid Kravchuk as the first president of independent Ukraine. Below...
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The danger is in the middle

The EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee recently held its 17th joint meeting. A number of Euro MPs for various groups of the European Parliament were in attendance. Despite the pressures...
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What is this heredity?

Nicely dressed, with the Ukrainian and Russian flags in their hands and decorations on their chests, the Chornobyl disaster fighters Anatolii Kozhevnikov, Viacheslav Dudaliev, Vladimir Mikhailov,...
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Rada LYSENKO: Ukrainian music will die without followers

An event that can be called a “dress rehearsal” of future official celebrations that will be held not only in Ukraine, but abroad as well, took place at the Mykola Lysenko Memorial...
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Letters to Ukraine – 10

Daddy, can I have a REAL circus for Christmas? Naturally, the child gets a toy circus, or nothing at all. That’s what “democracy” can be like. We campaign for human rights in...
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Prince William and the golden youth

On November 28 the whole world was delighted at Prince William’s heroic deed. Second in line to ascend the British throne, the prince rescued two Russian sailors from a cargo ship Swanland...
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“The memory of manmade famines unites all Ukrainians”

“MORE THAN 77 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE CONSIDER THE HOLODOMOR AN ACT OF GENOCIDE” Volodymyr VIATROVYCH, historian: “We are cherishing and handing down to the generations to come...
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Kuchma’s case. 11 years later

On November 29 MP of the second and third convocation Oleksandr Yeliashkevych, leader of the socialist party Oleksandr Moroz and public activist Oleksii Podolsky held a press conference where they...
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The forgotten 20th-century

BERLIN – It has been 20 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which for many historians marked the real end of the “short 20th century” – a century that,...
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The majoritarian system is back

The members of the political council of the party Our Ukraine were the first to declare their readiness to try the majoritarian system. The other day Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said that “...
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Prokofiev’s Kyiv Season

This cycle continues the jubilee “Kyiv Seasons.” Reviving the form of traditional musical evenings, the “Seasons” organizers with their actions want to draw the audience...

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