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, (2012)

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

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

Ukrainian situation and world context: diagnosis and remedies

(Continued from the previous issue)  THE MYTH OF A NEW GENERATION V.F.: “There is a [Ukrainian] slangy catchphrase: ‘Moolah will beat evil.’ In reality, ‘moolah...
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

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

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

“Lukashenka’s example is not to be followed”

BRUSSELS – The blame game in Europe has not yet begun. An agreement between Greece and its private creditors and public lenders will enable it to meet its next debt repayment deadline of...
06.03.2012 - 00:00

Anatolii Kocherha and Mykhailo Didyk created furor

Premier of Modest Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina on the stage of New York Metropolitan Opera was a huge success. The performance received extremely positive reviews from American public and press...
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

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

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...
06.03.2012 - 00:00

Lucky: a slumdog aristocrat

This dog’s life looks like the script of a film with an unknown – happy or unhappy – end: it consists of a hot mixture of such contradictory things as pathological failure and...
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

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

“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...

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