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, (2010)

16.02.2010 - 00:00

Olha Kharlan, the best saber fencer

The first round of the women saber fencing of Grand Prix of the World Cup 2010 recently took place in Orleans, France. The well-known 19-year-old Ukrainian Olha Kharlan won gold, reports the National...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

“Traditional landscape” and Europe in Bobrytsia

The small village of Bobrytsia (its population totals around 500 people) begins exactly 20 kilometers away from the Kyiv city area. This is why there is little space on both sides of the road that...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

I can still hear the sounds of bygone days…

February 1989. Roman Kupchinsky and I are at the editorial office of the journal Suchasnist. I am fearfully gazing from the 15th floor of a downtown New York high-rise at the John Kennedy monument...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

This day in history

1722: Peter I signs an edict instituting succession-to-the-throne procedures, whereby every successor is to be determined by the Russian tsar. 1793: In Vienna, the Austrian emperor’s chancellery...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

The lessons from Haiti

When the Haitians will have received their life-saving emergency food, water and health care, the world must invest in adequate risk reduction for this disaster ridden nation. Or do we want to...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

Les Taniuk’s book about Marian Krushelnytsky

Les Taniuk is nominated to receive the Shevchenko prize for his book Marian Krushelnytsky: School of Figurative Transformation Commanded by Les Kurbas.The Kharkiv Interregional Department of the...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

World Ukrainian Garden to be launched in Lviv

LVIV — Come June, this city will host the third get-together of ethnic Ukrainians from all over the world to discuss the possibilities of Ukraine’s cooperation with the international ethnic Ukrainian...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

EVENT

Youth offers projects and solutions to make society healthier The youth project “Make the Society Healthier!” recently selected 50 winners of the essay competition. It was carried out by the Klitchko...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

My heroines lived difficult lives but none were disappointed

“Photographs are a flash of eternity at the life’s end. A memory’s call and a memory’s response. An immortalized story and an immortalized episode… Photos bring back the presence of those who are...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

Fighting at a wrong frontline

Last Sunday the Central Election Commission (CEC) hastily proclaimed Viktor Yanukovych president. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko had said The Day before that she would never accept this. She...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

Beer taboo

The amount of beer drunk by young people and adults has increased ten times in the past decade, reports the Ministry of Health. At the moment, according to the data of the Yaremenko Institute of...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

IDs for large families

The Law of Ukraine “On Making Changes to Some Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Social Protection of Large Families” came into force on Jan. 1, 2010. Under this law, large families enjoy a number of...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

Arbitrariness under the golden domes

Returning the Kyiv Cave Monastery to state ownership may be the only way to protect it from falling into disrepair.While the market economy-mindset is asserting its hegemonic position, national...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

A bright prince from Dark Ages

Continued from previous issue The Muscovites did not want to free Kostiantyn at any price, hoping to make use of his talents, and tried to persuade him to serve the Moscow tsar. Aware of being...
16.02.2010 - 00:00

New era of financial globalization

The 40th World Economic Forum in Davos focused on US President Barack Obama’s actions aimed at curbing the freedom of banks’ activities. It will be recalled that this caused, in the long run, the...

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