№15, (2012)
06.03.2012 - 00:00
The word of awakening
It is considered that these days the society is passive and tired of politics. Everyone stands for themselves only. Ukrainian intellectuals and the clergy are going to make an attempt to change this...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
Milestone knockout
It was so fast – like a lightning. A series of three attacks and the opponent was on the floor. This is how Wladimir Klitschko’s victory over Jean-Marc Mormeck in Duesseldorf looked...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
Horowitz Competition winners are going to Japan
March 12 through 16 the young pianists will give concerts at the Osaka International Culture Center. The winners of the International Competition of Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
Still waiting for the WWII soldiers
At the beginning of February, the annual conference of the historical and search organization “Search-Dnipro,” which is a part of the National Civic Association “People’s...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
The oligarchs and the president: who will change who first? Experts reflect
The word “Family,” which was once aptly used to characterize Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s inner circle, now seems to be more and more applicable to those who surround Viktor...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk): The church must go beyond the boundaries of its temples
The primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) says that when he served in Lviv, he read our library project’s Wars and Peace and the publication of this book was in fact hitting...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
Engraving and ex libris master
Borys Kunovsky, an artist of worldwide renown, an unsurpassed engraving and ex libris master, and original painter, lived in his small house in a quiet street of an old iron-ore settlement near the...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
“Petrykivka paintings will always be modern art”
In recent years in Ukraine there has been a growing interest in traditional folk decorative art that is being updated and acquires new forms and values. This also applies to the famous Petrykivka...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
Taxing... a sorrow
Members of Parliament Yaroslav Sukhy (Party of Regions) and Kateryna Lukianova (NU-NS), the authors of the childlessness tax bill, explain that this will add to the central budget revenues while...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
Putin wins, division of society increases
Putin has won the campaign, collecting 63.82 percent of votes after 99 percent of the protocols (minutes) had been processed by the territorial election commissions. Administrative resources...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1919: The Third All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets convenes in Kyiv and adopts the first constitution of Soviet Ukraine.
1939: A monument to Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Kyiv, in commemoration...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
More than a book
The preparation of this project lasted for seven months. More than 60 artists presented their works at the exhibit, both amateurs and experienced masters among them.“We are striving to shift to a new...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
Students from Europe are expected in Lutsk
LUTSK – The idea to use not only the advantageous geographical location but the opportunities of the neighboring EU and close contacts with the European universities has been in the air for a...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
“Seaside Affair”: Art of the Crimea in partial reflection
Museum of Modern Art in the Hlybochytska Street in Kyiv is a big art center. For three days it will host an exposition of Crimean painters called “Seaside Affair.”
Visitors got to the...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
Talisman for US Embassy
The new US Embassy, just officially opened in Kyiv, symbolizes in many respects the multifaceted US-Ukrainian relations over the past 20 years. This is what the US Ambassador to Ukraine, John...