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

№1, (2017)

12.01.2017 - 12:18

“One step forward, two steps back”

Early on January 11 Kyiv time, US President Barack Obama urged Americans to defend democracy in his farewell speech and could not hold back his tears as it ended. He identified racism, economic...
12.01.2017 - 12:15

Christmas on the front lines

“DANCE”It is his favorite music. Though I do not know whether he admits it to himself.The melody starts usually with automatic gunfire, then machine guns join in, then thuds of...
12.01.2017 - 12:10

Viktor Pinchuk’s “compromises” as a surrender scenario?

The Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk’s contribution in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) (US), which advocates so-called “painful compromises,” has had a major public impact. Two weeks...
12.01.2017 - 11:59

Scandal worth 10 million dollars

The loss of artifacts was noticed and officially recorded at the Museum of Ancient Ukrainian Book Art, which is a department of Lviv National Art Gallery, on January 3, during the scheduled...
12.01.2017 - 11:56

Bankova St.’s new American stake

With US President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration just weeks away, the Presidential Administration of Ukraine has hired BGR Group, an American PR firm, to lobby the interests of our...
12.01.2017 - 11:53

Bloodstained illusions

“You shall immediately, as soon as possible stop the riots in the capital.” This telegram, addressed by Emperor Nicholas II to the commander of the Petrograd Military District...
12.01.2017 - 11:51

Byzantine Empire: a “Big Alien” or “Another I”? – 2

(Continued from the previous issue)In the first part of the interview, Andrii DOMANOVSKYI, Candidate of Sciences (History), Associate Professor at Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University, speaks on...
12.01.2017 - 11:43

“To err is a privilege of the artist”

Born in 1962, Oleksii Apollonov has been one of the leading artists of the Kyiv school of painting. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 1986. Since 2012, Apollonov...
12.01.2017 - 11:38

Kirill KARABITS: “Performing Ukrainian music, I find out new things about myself”

He is the most famous, the most creative, and the most emotional. Nearly every publication about Kyivite Kirill Karabits, who this year became the head of German National Theatre in Weimar and the...
12.01.2017 - 11:30

Seven Golden Globes for two hours of jazz

Moonlight by Barry Jenkins, a three-act story of an Afro-American gay who has to struggle for survival in a hostile environment, was pronounced the best drama at the 74th Golden Globe Awards ceremony...
12.01.2017 - 11:29

“I must find the grindstone of my ancestors”

On a Sunday morning, buses with Polish tourists keep pulling up, one by one, at the entrance to Lviv’s Lychakivske Cemetery. Cheerful and smiling, with candles and flowers in hand, they walk,...