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

№29, (2009)

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This short, long KROK

The 16th International Animated Film Festival KROK, a 20-year-old regular event, was shorter in 2009 than usual. Nevertheless, the quality of the competing films and the number of professional...
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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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<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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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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“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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Lviv hosts International Opera Singers Competition

LVIV — They say that in the early decades of the 20th century four men dominated the opera stage, Mattia Battistini, Enrico Caruso, Titta Ruffo, and Fyodor Shalyapin. Only one female singer,...
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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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Suicidal dolphins

These intelligent marine mammals commit suicide solo and in pods. When in serious trouble, they shriek and can be heard at the distance of several kilometers. Mass self-destruction is a rare...
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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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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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Ukraine’s cultural mission

Continued from previous issue The dialogue between Oxana Pachliowska and an outstanding Italian Slavist of global renown, Sante Graciotti, in the previous issues of The Day marked the beginning...
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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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Ideological friends or foes?

With regard to cultural education, workers were paid for their tickets to concerts of classical music or gala shows from the DAF’s rich budget that was mostly financed by entrepreneurs. (A worker...
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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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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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