№75, (2012)
04.12.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine’s chess Cinderella
The Kharkiv Chess Federation is rejoicing. A Kharkiv resident has become Women’s World Champion in Chess, over the entire history of the world chess competitions. Until now our female chess...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
Writer’s polka for knights
Opening the gala evening, museum director Liudmyla Hubianuri said: “Bulgakov’s name is inextricably linked with Kyiv. On The Day of the Archangel Michael, the patron saint of our city...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
Mazepa’s spirit soars over the Tighina Fortress, Odesa, and… Russia
Not so long ago, I visited the famous (currently ill-famed) historic fortress in Bendery, now part of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, which belongs to the State of Moldova...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
VAT bonds to be reissued to business
The Cabinet of Ministers may resume issuing VAT bonds next year. The state may choose to take this step to help business solve the problem of this tax’s arrears. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
40 years without Alla Horska
On November 29, 1970 the famous Ukrainian Sixtier artist was found brutally murdered in a Vasylkiv house.
The mysterious circumstances of her murder have not been fully clarified. Publicist...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
Art “at dusk”
Andrii Hurenko is always different but yet recognizable for his artistic way of thinking. Many know about him from the ethno festival “Sheshory”: he has been the curator of the land-...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
“The success of the state depends on the participation of its citizens in decision-making process”
UNDP’s Director of Democratic Governance Geraldine FRASER-MOLEKETI, former companion-in-arms of Nelson Mandela, as well as a former member of the National Executive Committee of the African...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
Will the “Arab Fall” come to Egypt?
Late November has seen continued mass protests in Egypt. However, this time the protest movement is directed against the current president Mohamed Morsi, and not against Hosni Mubarak, as...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1638: The Cossack Council at Masliv Stan adopts the Regulations on the Registered Zaporozhian Cossack Host. 1925: The first issue of the republican newspaper Komsomolets Ukrainy (to be renamed Molod...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
A day to fight alienation
Although not a public holiday, December 1 is undoubtedly worthy of note – the note of each of us because it is World AIDS Day.
AIDS is a “tricky” subject to some extent. Yet...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
2012 has been the deadliest in recent years for journalists
According to the International Press Institute’s statistics, 2012 has been the deadliest in 15 years for media workers of the world, with 119 having been killed in the line of duty so far....
04.12.2012 - 00:00
America’s political recession
BERKELEY – The odds are now about 36 percent that the United States will be in a recession next year. The reason is entirely political: partisan polarization has reached levels never before...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
Ukrainian girl wins “Junior Eurovision”
Ten-year old singer Anastasia Petryk earned Ukraine’s first victory at the international song contest “Junior Eurovision.” Since 2003 the contest is held by the European...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
Czech Photography Days started last week
“This is the first time when four exhibits of Czech authors have been united in one large-scale event. The undoubted star of The Days is the fashion photographer Robert Vano, who is bringing...
04.12.2012 - 00:00
A road to life
The rehabilitation centers (for men and women) for drug addicted persons at the Protestant church “Victory,” in Brovary, Kyiv oblast, are known as Ukraine’s best ones, apparently...















