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

№15, (2009)

26.05.2009 - 00:00

The poet’s “divine spark”

Sept. 4, 2009, is the 200th birth anniversary of Juliusz Slowacki, a Polish romantic poet, who had Ukrainian roots and wrote about Ukraine. He was very well aware of Ukraine’s problems and was, in a...
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This week in history

May 26 1648: Cossack troops led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeat the Poles in the Battle of Korsun. May 27 1657: The Holy Roman Empire enters into an alliance with the Kingdom of Poland (Rzeczpospolita)...
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Secrets of St. Cyril Church

This is the first time we are celebrating an anniversary of the unique 12th-century architectural monument located in the north-eastern part of Kyiv, in Dorohozhychi. The museum’s history started in...
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Taras Hryhorovych Murakami

I would like to assure you straight away that we have nothing against contemporary Ukrainian literature. Thank goodness, we have it. As for classical Ukrainian literature, it is no longer “cool” to...
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Ukraine is not Russia, but why is it not where Poland is?

Adam MICHNIK, editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza and one of those “guilty” of the collapse of communism in Poland, told Kyiv students about the way his country has been shaking off the Soviet legacy...
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Night at the Museum

The lights in the corners were providing only dim illumination, so the visitors were given lanterns to help them see better the pictures. The soft music by DJ Mishukoff filled the museum. This is the...
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Dismissal stayed

Building plans means making God laugh. This saying fits in very well with Ukrainian politics. Last Wednesday BYuT members almost vowed that parliament would vote the minister of defense out of...
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Ukraine as a failed state: myths and reality

Starting from the mid-1990s the world has been discussing the relatively new concept of a “failed state,” which means a dysfunctional state, a state that has failed to develop, a state in ruins....
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Organic food three times more expensive

In defiance of the claims that Ukraine does not have any market for organic food, the demand for organic products (grown without pesticides, genetically modified organisms, mineral fertilizers, and...
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Graffitied stadium

Aided by Lviv’s Directorate for Euro-2012 Information and Promotion, FC Lviv has organized a graffiti festival at the local Sokil stadium. Nearly two dozen young Ukrainian artists have decorated the...
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Lessons from Melbourne meetings

(Conclusion. For beginning see The Day No. 13 and 14)6. A BLOW TO THE NATION-STATEIt is an established fact that mass terror was the key tool for running the state under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph...
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When will they stop?

Theoretically, the period of the initial accumulation of capital should be over by now, as well as the kind of politics that typically accompanies it. Today most powerful figures in Ukraine...
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Tymoshenko’s forecast

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced that BYut will participate in the presidential elections. The news came at the open meeting of the government, which was called to address the problems...
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Opinions split over anti-gambling law

A recent law passed by the Verkhovna Rada has forced heavy gamblers in Ukraine to put off the dreams of hitting the jackpot for an unspecified period. It is also unclear now whether gambling business...
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Folk songs have become the people in Ukraine

Dear Ms. Ivshyna:Perhaps nothing else serves to uphold a newspaper’s prestige as does its consistent, unswerving editorial policy. This is also true of the all-Ukrainian daily newspaper Den’,...

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