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

№19, (2007)

26.06.2007 - 00:00

You won’t believe it: the state needs intellect

Addressing a press conference last Tuesday, Stanislav Nikolaienko, Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science, announced that the government has increased its quota of study places in institutions...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

Holiday celebrating a constitution that is not upheld

There will be four holidays in late June. We will be celebrating the 11th anniversary of the Constitution of Ukraine as solemnly and lavishly as never before. There will be extravaganzas, concerts,...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

A formative school

Every day oblast and district centers are confronted with a host of problems, but Kyiv politicians have created a new one: preparing for the parliamentary elections. As usual, city mayors are mostly...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

Aleksandr RAHR: “Everyone has acknowledged that Sept. 30 is the new beginning of Ukrainian history”

Alexander Rahr, the director of Russia and CIS programs at the German Council on Foreign Relations, is well known in Ukrainian and German expert circles. The opinions of this German expert are...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

“Grab-it” syndrome

At a press conference held on Friday, June 22, Oleksandr Afonin, president of the Ukrainian Association of Publishers and Book Distributors, announced that Mystetstvo, Alaton, Oberehy, Ukrainska...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

This week in history

June 26 1919: The first All-Ukraine Congress of Communist Organizations of Working Youth convenes in Kyiv, during which the Komsomol of Ukraine is founded. 1994: Presidential elections are held in...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

Portrait of an authentic woman

On June 21, the Art Development Foundation in Kyiv hosted the premiere of Venus and Others: Portrait of an Authentic Woman by the Mushlia Theater of Poetry (artistic director: Serhii Arkhypchuk)....
26.06.2007 - 00:00

Yanukovych’s plan

They say it does not pay to make predictions. But this maxim does not seem to apply to Ukrainian politicians. We may have all forgotten that, according to the estimates of the Orange revolution...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

Uncovering the potential of state markets

The Committee for Economic Cooperation of the Ukraine-Russia Governmental Commission held a meeting in Moscow presided over by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine and his Russian counterpart...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

Great migration continues

Officials at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees predict that in 5 to 10 years Ukraine’s population will be ethnically considerably more diversified as a result of the influx of tens of thousands...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

National memory and efforts to stymie it

The historical-memorial publication, Knyha pamiati Ukrainy (Ukraine’s Book of Memory) objectively reflects the Ukrainian nation’s participation in the Second World War. Work on this project began 18...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama:

An old Tibetan proverb says that no one knows exactly what will happen first: tomorrow or the next life. A couple of weeks ago Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University hosted the roundtable “The XIV...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

A gentle approach to immunity

The president urges future members of the Verkhovna Rada to waive their immunity. The prime minister says the president’s initiative is a campaign stunt. The opposition promises to support the...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

Ukraine at the Czech Film Festival

For the first time a Ukrainian feature film will be screened at the prestigious 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which will take place on June 29-July 7. According to the Category A...
26.06.2007 - 00:00

Ukrainians becoming realists

Experts at the Sociology Institute of Ukraine’s National Academy of Science have completed the Ukraine-Europe series of research projects on the ways of life and mass consciousness of Ukrainians and...

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