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

№13, (2016)

24.02.2016 - 18:01

#Lesyaukrayinka

The annual celebration program is new and exclusive every year – although one may wonder what new can be thought of in this regard. But the university derives its name after Lesia Ukrainka, a...
24.02.2016 - 17:52

Activism with a long view

Activities of the Odesa Oblast State Administration’s head Mikheil Saakashvili resemble life of a candidate on a campaign trail rather than work of a bureaucrat. Former president of Georgia...
24.02.2016 - 17:51

Civilizational choice

LONDON – The deal made by the UK government during the EU summit, February 18-19, to keep Britain inside the EU and redraw the terms of the UK’s membership remains key subject within the...
24.02.2016 - 17:48

“Book Spring”

Many interesting actions and meetings await the visitors of the book fair “Kyiv Spring 2016.” During the charity chronicle-marathon “To live. Understanding Kyiv,” dedicated to...
24.02.2016 - 17:46

Clenched fist and open hand policy

This year’s major foreign political challenge for Ukraine, apart from Russia’s aggression, is the Dutch Ukraine-EU Association Agreement referendum, scheduled for April 6. The Netherlands...
24.02.2016 - 17:42

Intelligent conversation with a robot

In Japan, you can get useful advice from... a humanoid robot. Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs Hanna Hopko “talked” to this miracle of technology a few days...
24.02.2016 - 17:39

The price of a ceasefire

US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced the other day that they had reached an agreement on the cessation of fire in Syria from February 27 onwards. It will be...
24.02.2016 - 17:33

Forcing elections in the Donbas

The joint press conference of Foreign Ministers of Germany, France, and Ukraine Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Jean-Marc Ayrault, and Pavlo Klimkin in Kyiv showed differences in the parties’...
24.02.2016 - 17:29

A geopolitical axis or an accidental alliance

The situation in the Middle East is rapidly deteriorating. Relations between Russia and Turkey are no longer merely hostile – they are on the verge of a large-scale conflict. And the conflict...
24.02.2016 - 16:59

“Postmodernists would have been delighted...”

On the global scale, the Russian aggression against Ukraine is not only a challenge in regard of military, diplomatic, and economic matters, but also an attack in intellectual, ideological terms....
24.02.2016 - 16:56

The Maidan: a Kharkiv student’s view

To mark an anniversary of the Maidan February events, the filmmakers’ association Babylon’13 is presenting a full-length documentary film, Captives. On February 23, Lviv’s movie...
24.02.2016 - 16:50

Berlinale Bears: when predictability becomes a virtue

Fire at Sea by Gianfranco Rosi, Italy, won a well-deserved Golden Bear, the Prize of the Ecumenical   Jury, and the International Amnesty Prize. It is a non-fiction drama about the life on...
24.02.2016 - 16:46

“The Heavenly Hundred went to southern skies”

Halyna Stefanova, an actress of the Les Kurbas Center started the music-poetic action with the lines from Lesia Ukrainka’s The Possessed: “He may forgive, but he will never forget!”...
24.02.2016 - 16:45

A China-colored spring

The mysterious and inimitable world of Chinese culture is going to be a bit closer to Ukrainian audiences. The National Opera and the Lviv Opera will host, on March 1 and 4, respectively, the...
24.02.2016 - 16:43

“Willful” symbols

A square, a triangle, and varnished metal form a basis for Yaroslav Derkach’s project “Symbols” now being displayed in Kyiv’s TSEKH gallery. The artist has chosen ten specific...