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

№76, (2010)

23.12.2010 - 00:00

“Chosen by the Times”

Continued from previous issue Less than two months have passed since Viktor Chernomyrdin’s death. He was both spectacular and influential as a politician, statesman, and administrator. He...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

Banksy’s games

The famous street artist Banksy has transferred more than four million rubles to help the Russian art group Voina. The money was raised by selling a limited circulation of Banksy prints titled...
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This day in history

1672: Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Rhea, the largest airless satellite of Saturn. 1857: Moscow’s Post Office issues Russia’s first postage stamps. 1873: The Taras Shevchenko Literary Society...
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Physicists turn into psychologists

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Serhii Tihipko told a press conference last week that the most difficult reforms will now be in the social sector. “First of all, I mean the pension reform and reforms...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

Bohdan DZIURAKH: St. Nicholas Day has always been for me the holiday of God’s kindness

The Head of the Patriarchal administration, the secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Bohdan DZIURAKH answers The Day’s questions: Could you please tell...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

The treacherous march of Stalinism

In the clouds of the 21st century the apocalyptic symbol of Stalin is hovering over the planet. There was nothing worse than hearing his name, be it in the form of an appeal or a curse. No one is...
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“It’s important that Ukrainians in Russia see and hear Kyiv”

The recent abolition of the Federal National Cultural Autonomy of Ukrainians in Russia coincided with the visit of Volodymyr DOROSHENKO to The Day’s office. Doroshenko leads the Ukrainian...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

Living on credit

The government plans to borrow 600 million dollars to balance the budget on foreign markets by issuing bonds with a maturity date of one year. This will be done based on the decree of the Cabinet of...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

The obscure Novakivsky

The 50 little-known works by Oleksa Novakivsky on exhibit in Lviv come from the Novakivsky family private collection. Until now, they have been tucked away in the storerooms of the National Museum...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

The New Year adventures of a rabbit and… pension reform

It must be very human and deeply embedded to forget all bad and unpleasant things in the last days of December. A festive mood has also seeped into the Verkhovna Rada. A Christmas tree was put up...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

“A chronicle of the soul of an intellectual in an absurd world”

Lina Kostenko’s Notes of a Ukrainian Madman has been called one of the most awaited books in the history of Ukrainian literature. It was long-awaited indeed, not only in terms of the text,...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

“Lukashenko showed himself to the world as a dictator”

How does Belarus evaluate the bloody fight in downtown Minsk and the police actions, aimed at the demonstrators who participated in the protest action against the falsification of the presidential...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

Ivonna Malevich: Malevich reacted to the Holodomor through both art and poetry

The arrival of Ivonna Malevich, the grand-niece of the famed artist, to this year’s Malevich Award ceremony was a real sensation. She shared some interesting facts about the life of her...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

Tusk questions the Kremlin’s “friendship”

Poland considers the draft report of the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) on the reasons for the Smolensk catastrophe “unacceptable.” Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who is always...
23.12.2010 - 00:00

A price panic for Christmas?

State officials assure that there will be no price fever in Ukraine before the New Year. Mykhailo Rusynsky, the deputy minister of economy, voiced this opinion at the end of last week. “The market is...

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