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

№9, (2008)

12.03.2008 - 00:00

What are our agrarian producers scared of?

Ukrainian farmers will be the first to feel the consequences of WTO membership, Ivan Tomych, president of the Association of Farmers and Private Landowners of Ukraine, told journalists. He noted that...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

Production-line fashion

With every passing year, the word “industry” is becoming increasingly applicable to Ukrainian fashion. Fashionistas are beginning to be aware that glittering little stones and shocking decorations...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

On phenomena of art and necessity for changes

Shevchenko prizes were ceremoniously presented to the laureates and a soiree held in commemoration of the poet’s 194th anniversary. Among these year’s laureates are: stage director Oleksandr Dzekun...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

A bleak diagnosis

On March 7 a roundtable on Ukraine’s demographic development took place in Kyiv. During the conference two analytical reports were presented under the same title: “Ukraine’s Potential and Its...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

Sensational find in Ternopil

An important event took place recently at the Ternopil Oblast Regional History Museum. Vira Stetsko, a well-known art specialist and author of more than 200 articles and studies on Baroque sculpture...
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The strength of a united nation

Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of an event that made a great impact on Ukrainian history and whose reverberations still excite the imagination of many Ukrainians. Toward the end of January...
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To the summits

The Grand Salon of Sculpture 2008 opened at Kyiv’s Ukrainian Home as part of the project Kyiv Art. This is one of those cases where annotations can be fully trusted. The organizers are...
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The energy of women’s unity

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko believes that women began to enter politics because governments were unable to carry out their duty of protecting their people from dangers and injustice. She made...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

“I simply wanted to find out how we will be living 20 years from now”

For the benefit of those who don’t waste their Friday nights watching meaningless verbal exchanges (for some unknown reason called political debates) among a limited number of public figures on the...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

Oleksii KYRYCHENKO: a leader with character

In 1957 Vsevolod Holub’s book Konspektyvnyi narys istorii KP(b)U (Concise History of the CP(B)U) was published in Munich. Commenting on the June 1953 plenum of the CC CP(B)U, when...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

What is being cooked in the world’s “weather kitchen”?

A few weeks ago the 14 members of the XII Ukrainian Antarctic expedition handed over their watch to their colleagues and with light hearts left the Academician Vernadsky Station, where they had been...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

This week in history

March 12 1923: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR sends a note of protest to the governments of Great Britain, Italy, and France in connection with the annexation of Eastern...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

Liudmyla SHEVCHENKO:

On the eve of the anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth, when so many grandiloquent words were spoken, we were curious, as always, about how people live in the poet’s native places. We put this...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

New Cradle of Hope project launched

A new medical center specializing in the treatment of infants has just opened in the city of Khmelnytsky. The Cradle of Hope program, part of the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation, was formed on the basis of...
12.03.2008 - 00:00

An attempt to establish a canon?

A few days ago the Ye Bookstore launched an anthology edited by the philologist Vira Aheieva, a well-known Ukrainian literary scholar and critic. The book contains the finest examples of 20th-century...

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