№22, (2010)
15.04.2010 - 00:00
Tabachynk’s Nomination: Smoke and Mirrors
Ukraine’s long-troubled education system is now in a state of paroxysm. Since the nomination of the controversial Education Minister, Dmytro Tabachnyk, students and professors, especially in the...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
This day in history
1919: The Soviet government’s decree instituting corrective labor camps marks the beginning of the notorious GULAG network. 1935: In Washington, signatories from twenty-one countries, including...
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Polish Film Festival: from Kyiv to Donetsk through Vinnytsia
A film festival is to open at the capital’s movie theater Kyiv today. The program will include last year’s best Polish films. The festival is masterminded by the Ukrainian Film Foundation together...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
EVENT
Bakiyev is deprived of immunityThe interim government of Kyrgyzstan, which removed the country’s president Kurmanbek Bakiyev from power, stated that the country’s leader, while formally maintaining...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
What’s going on in Cherkasy
People can now learn about the way Cherkasy spends its free time from the new tourist-information magazine Zhyvy v Cherkasakh (Live in Cherkasy). The first issue of the newly-created edition was...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
Humanitarian aggression on the verge of science fiction
Russian science fiction authors, when modeling their country’s near or distant future, will typically envisage Ukraine as a constituent part of Russia.
This is the case particularly in those...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
Marusia Churai in Moscow
This soiree was highlighted by the literary-musical composition “A Maiden from a Legend” based on Lina Kostenko’s novel in verse Marusia Churai. It was the first production of the Enei Theater in...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
A message for the new government
Dirk BRENGELMANN, Assistant Secretary General on Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO, has come to our country at a time when the new Ukrainian government is trying to define the new status of...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
External testing in Ukraine
External testing has been discussed on an unprecedented scale during the past couple of weeks. On the one hand, young people will soon take their college/university entrance exams. On the other hand...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
For your memory and ours
I don’t know what happened.
All I know is that explanations go from atmospheric mist to ideological mist, from engineering malfunctions to xenophobic pathology.
This is what happens when...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
A heavenly mystery
The festival was opened by the acrobats from the Marseille circus studios, Les Studios de Cirque de Marseille. They showed Kyivans and the guests of our capital their aerial show, Angel Square....
15.04.2010 - 00:00
Ukrainization is inevitable
What good can one expect from all those bad things that are happening in Ukraine (and elsewhere)? This is one of the questions Ukrainians have been most frequently asking themselves, and experts...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
Example of Viadrina
I’m going to confess right away: I’ve never been to Viadrina. Because I didn’t have a Schengen visa. I saw Viadrina only in pictures and standing on the Polish bank of Oder.What is Viadrina? It’s a...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
Valor in convictions and deeds
“A nation which believes that some neighboring country will build a state for it will never be able to find its feet and will always be a paralytic, with its political groups serving as the rear...
15.04.2010 - 00:00
“From Ukraine’s to Europe’s security”
The organizers of the event invited specialists on state security and international relations representing 22 countries in Europe, Asia and America to come to Lviv and participate in the...