№8, (2005)
15.03.2005 - 00:00
Government Promises Decent Pensions and Wages
The Ukrainian government intends to significantly increase social spending this year, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said last week. She pointed out that 83% of Ukrainian pensioners presently “...
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Provoking Identities
Without delving into academic definitions, identity means the degree to which a given object reflects its true nature. In regard to people, identity means being true to one’s character, ethnic...
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A Lady of Virtue
HER UNIVERSITIES Although this article concerns a classic of Ukrainian literature, we should start with some biographical facts. Olha-Maria Kobylianska was born on November 27, 1863, in Gurahumora, a...
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Butter Week: A Lost Tradition
Last weekend Kyivans and guests of the capital were made welcome in city parks and other places where the Masliana (Butter or Pancake Week before Lent) was celebrated, marking the departure of winter...
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The Books That Made the Headlines
On March 10 Kyiv’s Operetta Theater hosted an awards ceremony for the winners of the 4th national rating campaign “Book of the Year 2004” organized by the Elite- Profi center of rating studies, the...
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“Preventive” Measures
The murky controversy surrounding the Kyiv Dynamo soccer club is common knowledge among Ukrainians, who simply see it as an attempt by the new government to take Dynamo away from Surkis. No one is...
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Anti-Scholarly Approach to Highbrows
The National Academy of Sciences is now in a state of nervous tension. Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, hit upon the following idea in a recent press interview: “The...
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This week in history
March 15. 1668. Demyan of Many Sins was elected hetman of the Left Bank Ukraine. 1939. The Soym (parliament) of Carpathian Ukraine proclaimed an independent republic with a presidential form of...
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“To Understand Ukrainians, You Have to See Ukraine...”
Dmytro KLOCHKO is a photographer, who specializes in portraits of Ukrainians and Ukraine. In search of the sites that he captures on film, he travels the country from east to west and north to south...
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A Craze for Counting Billionaires
Forbes magazine has tracked billionaires in Ukraine for the first time. In the just-published list of the world’s billionaires, Ukraine is represented by three people. According to this authoritative...
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Boys no Longer in Vogue
A bill called “National Program to Stimulate Adoption in Ukraine” was presented toward the end of last week. Its ideas were supported by the Adoption Center at the Ministry of Education and Science...
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“If You Have Surplus Dollars, Change Them!”
The new Ukrainian government is making a generous gesture by extending a hand to business. What is in this hand and is there something “up the government’s sleeve?” This was the theme of a forum...
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How to Find Money For Ukrainian Culture?
“These types of scholarly works are very complex,” says Yevhen Karas, one of the translators. “Sometimes you have to rewrite the original text, so that the reader will understand it. Our task is,...
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Treasures Not Yet Assessed
Yuriy Kulinych, director of the Central Archival Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine, recently sent a letter to the editorial offices of The Day, requesting free copies of the books Ukraine...
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Normal Bankruptcy
The Ministry of Economy is busy coping with bankruptcy cases, says Economy and European Integration Minister Serhiy Teriokhyn, adding that “bankruptcy is currently the number-one privatization method...













