№29, (2009)
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Ukrainians hopeful about presidential elections
Proof of such expectations is in the findings of the sociological survey “Contemporary Political Situation in Ukraine: Sociopolitical View,” carried out this September by the All-Ukrainian...
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EVENT
Yushchenko urges Barroso to sign agreementPresident Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine hopes to sign a document on Dec. 4, 2009, which will be based on the results of the Ukraine-EU summit and offer an...
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Fighting for independence
LUTSK — The village of Zabuzhzhia is located 50 km away the raion center Liuboml and even farther from the oblast center. The Bug flows just behind the vegetable gardens marking the Ukraine-Poland...
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25th Ukrainian Fashion Week
October 15 saw the launch of Ukraine’s 25th Fashion Week, featuring 2010 spring-summer collections by five Ukrainian designers who have differing and even contrasting creative approaches. As it is,...
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Operation Artek
The case of “pedophiles in Artek” is snowballing. New horrendous details appear every day. Attorney Tetiana Montian recently claimed that there was an entire den of pedophiles in the children’s...
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The art of escape
Paintings of the Interesting Fairytales group started to appear on Kyiv’s walls several years ago. Theirs are huge, at times wall-size, frescoes featuring strange characters seemingly stiffened in...
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Joschka Fischer: Ukraine mustn’t be subject of Russia-Europe controversy
COPENHAGEN — Germany’s ex-Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer favors Ukraine’s integration into the European Union. Not coincidentally, he was one of few European politicians who lobbied for Javier...
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This week in history
Oct. 20 1995: The all-Ukrainian Orthodox Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC KP), elects Metropolitan Filaret patriarch of the UOC KP. Oct. 21 1989: The founding meeting of...
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International White Cane Day
The international community has marked on the calendar numerous well-known and memorable dates. One of them is White Cane Day on October 15, Blind People’s Day on November 11, and Disabled People’s...
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Playing single-candidate game
Candidates for presidency are now hunting for the electorate, anxious to get votes by hook or by crook. Viktor Yanukovych, for example, is frequenting churches and orphanages. Just yesterday, for...
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More time and persistence needed
On Oct. 14, 2009, Ukrainians celebrated the holiday of the Protection of the Mother of God. This is also Ukrainian Cossacks Day and The Day of Creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Certainly, a...
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Official subsistence level in Ukraine too low
Ukraine and the rest of the world have recently focused attention to poverty – October 16 marked World Food Day and October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Statistically,...
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<I>Den</I> launches photo exhibit, new book in Lutsk
LUTSK — Den/The Day has launched the tour of its photo exhibit around Ukraine in Lutsk – for a reason. Volyn National University is one of the newspaper’s partners and is distanced from the...
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“I am not a moralist”
The poetic and essayistic album book KGB and Others… by the dissident, journalist, and poet Igor Pomerantsev has been published for the first time in Ukraine by GraniT. It was published, naturally,...
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Diplomatic step toward cleaner world
This year the fate of our planet may be determined in many ways. Either the state leaders, who will gather on Dec. 7–18, 2009, for the UN Conference on Climate Changes in Copenhagen, will underta...