№20, (2012)
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Bets are placed
The National Bank of Ukraine decided to give the Ukrainian economy a positive signal. The decree of NBU No. 102 from March 21 provides for reducing the banking rate from 7.75 to 7.5 percent. It also...
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Lysenko. Taras Bulba. Lysenko again
The production was conducted by Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko, great-great-grandson of the founder of Ukrainian classical music, Merited Worker of Arts of Ukraine, artistic director and conductor of...
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Maksym DONDIUK: In clinics they give two pieces of bread per day, and soup is thinner than coffee. People with no money simply die
Last year Kyiv photographer Maksym Dondiuk was one of the winners of the 13th All-Ukrainian Photo Contest of Den/The Day with a series of his works “Tuberculosis. 10 thousands every year....
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Land reform, as seen by practitioners
This winter brought the Ukrainian farmers quite a few unpleasant surprises, with about one-third of winter crops killed by unprecedentedly severe frosts. According to the Ministry of Agrarian...
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Abdeljalil SAUBRY: Morocco isn’t afraid of change or reform
The Kingdom of Morocco is the first African country to have held a summit with the European Union, signed an association and FTA agreements. Morocco is a member of NATO and takes part in numerous...
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Ukraine: time to deliver on reforms
Notwithstanding important progress in poverty reduction since independence 20 years ago, Ukraine is not achieving its full potential. It is time to focus attention on why despite ambitious...
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This day in history
1864: Lviv’s drama company stages a Ukrainian-language play based on Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s story “Marusia.” 1882: The first book of the Kievskaia starina [a historically ethnographic and...
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On “soft” tools
SEOUL – The summit that was just now over became the biggest diplomatic event in the history of Korea. It gathered almost 5,000 delegates and 3,700 journalists in the capital of this country. The...
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Kyiv Pectoral: the Theater on Podil wins 6 out of 14 awards
The important date, 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s only professional theater prize, Kyiv Pectoral, annually awarded on the International Theater Day at the Ivan Franko National Theater, predictably...
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Andrii KLIUIEV: “Ukraine cannot develop efficiently without people’s active participation”
When commenting the decree on the Strategy of State Policy for Civil Society Support in Ukraine signed by the president, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrii Kliuiev declared...
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Environment supporters have cleaned up water bodies on the World Water Day
The fourth event of the Euro-2012 Environment Supporter national environmental project was held in Lviv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kyiv on March 24. This time, volunteers and all the people concerned...
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Light joy of Marfa Tymchenko’s art
Marfa Tymchenko in her decorative paintings and works of porcelain developed unique ornamental style created not by one generation of craftsmen native to her old village of Petrykivka in...
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Without intrigue…
In all appearance, on April 24 Ukraine will get the new ombudsperson. In all probability it will be Valeria Lutkovska (governmental representative at the European Court for Human Rights). Overall 261...
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Ukrainian space industry breaks into the South American market
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau of Dnipropetrovsk is in talks on building spacecrafts for South American nations of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, the journalists were told by the bureau’s chief designer...
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Stepping up erosion
On March 16, Moldova elected Nicolae Timofti, a 63-year-old lawyer, as president. Beginning in 2009, the Moldovan parliament had been unable to elect the head of state because of the destructive...
