№19, (2010)
30.03.2010 - 00:00
EVENT
Pictures by cancer-sick children to be sold in CherkasyA charity auction to sell pictures and paper applique made by cancer-sick children will take place on April 7 in Cherkasy. The organizer of the...
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What does freedom look like?
Do not think shallow thoughts…Immortality is somewhere out there…
Lina Kostenko’s return to Ukrainian society has already made itself felt. Proof of this is the response of the press to the new...
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Three questions for Dmytro Tabachnyk
Dear Mr. Tabachnyk:
We have never met, so I don’t think you have any idea about who I am or what I do. I, on the contrary, have closely followed your career for quite some time.
Frankly, back in the...
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Ukrainians in the 21st century: A modern-day statelessness?
Continued from previous issue
These policies are implemented even when the mass media formally belong to a Ukrainian proprietor. Suffice it to remember Savik Shuster’s show “Shuster LIVE” on...
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Echo of Moscow blasts
Yesterday morning Moscow was rocked with two terrorist acts within an hour, which claimed 35 human lives and left about 50 people injured. Vladimir Markin, a spokesman of the Investigation...
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This day in history
1651: Bohdan Khmelnytsky holds talks in Bila Tserkva with Myslavsky, envoy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1821: The Southern Decembrist Society is formed in Tulchyn (currently in Vinnytsia oblast...
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Energy efficiency as a point of growth
The World Bank recently issued a report which says that for every one dollar invested in improving energy efficiency we would save two dollars in power-generation investment. Is Ukraine going to...
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How we shaped “Model Ukraine”
The conference lasted for two days at the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University. Its participants were the alumni of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (...
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Border zone violation
On March 24, on World Tuberculosis Day, the Great Surprise project was launched in the National Art museum of Ukraine. For the last decade our country has had one of the highest indexes that shows...
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Modernism, classics, fantasies
The exhibition features the works that were created in the past 18 years by the artists from all the regions of Ukraine (it contains the retrospective of nearly 200 artists and over 700 works). By...
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Elite chic by Skrypka
On March 25 and April 1 and 8, 2010, Oleh Skrypka, the frontman of the Vopli Vidopliasova band, will present his new solo project in the cabaret jazz style in Sullivan Room in Kyiv, reports Skrypka’s...
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How can stress be avoided?
Politics frequently prevents us from assessing our life objectively. Watching the fierce struggle in the high ranks, Ukrainians are also inclined to give way to hysteria, get worried about their...
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What kind of country do we want to live in?
BROVARY — The Day’s dialog “What Kind of Ukraine Do We Love?” between its Russian and Ukrainian readers prompted me to look back and ask myself why I love Russia and Ukraine. Were my life to be...
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Kindergarten for special children
Recently the world marked International Down Syndrome Day. In Ukraine, as a rule, the parents of children with this disorder draw attention to their problems through participation in NGOs. This is a...
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Education: badly in need for reform
Experts in the education sphere insist that it is not a good idea to make any changes now in the current higher-education admission system after it has been tested and fine-tuned for two years. Also...