№72, (2012)
22.11.2012 - 00:00
The complexity of choosing the lesser of two evils
After the Orange Revolution’s fiasco and its leadership’s defeat during the next elections, probably the most topical issue on Ukraine’s political agenda was choosing the...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
“Human” security through the eyes of young people
First Youth Security Forum titled “Human Security in International Relations: Foreign Policy for People” will open in Kyiv on November 23. The Forum will bring together 50 young...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
“There are no children, just people”
“Love your child unconditionally, even when they are mediocre, unhappy or have grown up. Enjoy speaking to them while you can, because your child’s presence in your life is a feast that...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
Oshibana Ukrainian style
Six hundred years ago in Japan samurai learned to “draw” pictures with petals. This art was called oshibana and gradually spread throughout the world. Plants from the Crimea, the...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
The Feather Headdress of Ancient Mexico: Common heritage, shared responsibility
Certain cultural goods possess value that transcends political and cultural borders. They are a testament of past generations’ accomplishments and of mankind’s ability to infuse an object with a...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
Andrii HONCHARUK: “Chinese nomenklatura should not be compared to that of the Soviet Union”
Are the new seven, headed by Xi Jinping, able to cope with the challenges facing the party and the world’s second superpower? In what way can the arrival of the new team affect relations between...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
More than just Yura Sikanov’s woe
Yura Sikanov, the young man who played himself in Pit No. 8, has been in Makiivka city hospital’s department of maxillofacial surgery for a month. He underwent two surgeries to drain phlegmons in his...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
Master of instant insight
Famous Kyiv-based painter Nina Bondarenko is an amazing master of instant insight and irrepressible impulse. She painted magic flowers in space of landscapes filled with color in one breath with...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
Too rich to care?
On December 13, a group of researchers from the Kryvy Rih Botanic Garden and Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Problems of Nature Management and Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences might become...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
Wondrous travels
They say that the joy of knowledge is in being surprised by something, rather than by remembering something. Quite a few people deviate from the textbook tourist itineraries and places of interest...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
Non-memoir presentation of Alone with Myself
These days, a bookstore Moskva on Vozdvizhenka Street in Moscow hosted a meeting with the first USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev. The event was organized to present his book Alone with Myself. The...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
The BEATLES Epoch
The era of the 1960s is inevitably associated with the name of the legendary quartet, which has long become its symbol. Exhibition of photos by Astrid Kirchherr “The BEATLES” opened in...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
“We have always been a rock band open to experimenting!”
Musicians came to Ukraine in their world tour in support of their new studio album Not Your Kind of People. In addition to songs from the new album, Garbage played their immortal hits: “I...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
Kharkiv artists say a merry goodbye to the past
KHARKIV – Young artists from Odesa, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Minsk took some time to ponder over the image of the leader and power in the contemporary world. The paintings and video recordings,...
22.11.2012 - 00:00
“There is a potbelly stove in every house, but it would be better to have more blankets”
A three-year-old girl is playing with a hammer outdoors, barely holding it in her little hand. It is mid-November, but she is wearing a light summer dress – here, at the Gypsy camp in a Kyiv...















