№29, (2011)
26.05.2011 - 00:00
VV’s twenty-fifth anniversary
In all probability our newspaper has not missed any of the significant events in VV’s or Oleh Skrypka’s life: the band’s 20th anniversary, the festivals Kraina Mrii and Rock-Sich...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
Kyiv has the best musicians!
The Third International Festival for Children and Youth Art Premium is being held in Kyiv May 17 through 30. It consists of two parts: the instrumental contest (which finished on May 23), and the...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
How is our young art faring?
Last week the Kyiv-based Modern Art Institute hosted the opening of a competition exhibit as part of the MUKHi project, which displays works by young Ukrainian artists. The project is primarily...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
Army reform
It’s going to be a year since Ukraine officially became a nonaligned country, according to the adopted law “On the principles of domestic and foreign policy.” Hence, Ukraine had...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
This day in history
1648: Cossack troops, led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky, defeat the Poles in the Battle of Korsun. 1920: Red Army units start a counteroffensive on the Southwestern Front, meant to seize Kyiv. 1926: In Paris...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
A cosmic artist
What has society seen and remembered over the past days, weeks and months? Ruins, vandalism, brutality, provocations, invectives, and filth. The Red flag has returned to Ukraine and there have been...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
Express German visas and lawsuits in Ukraine
Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Ukraine, told a press conference yesterday that new entry visa procedures were legally effective for frequent...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
Obama speaks on close alliance and world leadership
US president stated that he had come to confirm the strong alliance between the US and Great Britain, which is of greatest importance in the world: “Even as more nations take on the...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
A plus tendency
The contest for London’s A-Level Bellerbys College scholarship recently ended in Ukraine. It was organized in collaboration with the Donstream Education Group. Among the seven finalists,...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
Legal support for biofuels
The parliament has approved a bill on the production and usage of biofuel in the first reading. The document’s explanatory note emphasizes that its aim is to encourage the production, marketing,...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
Kyiv-Moscow gas talks
On May 18 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared that there is no biased attitude toward Ukraine [in terms of gas supplies], but simply a price to be paid. This gives one food for thought. Does...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
“Street masquerade”: a deja vu for Saakashvili
May 24, 2011. Georgia’s Pre-sident Mikheil Saakashvili is playing chess with Tbilisi’s mayor Gigi Ugulava at the opening of the capital’s Sand Park. Incidentally, in his speech...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
Students demand quality education
Yesterday students went out into the streets of Kyiv, Donetsk, Rivne, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk, Lutsk and other regional centers to hold protest actions. The young people are dissatisfied with...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
Innovative ways to make money
The artificial heart, video calls, virtual fitting rooms, shirts made of plastic bottles, wallpaper that changes color depending on the mood of the person in the room… Until recently one...
26.05.2011 - 00:00
An empire of light at PinchukArtCentre
Last week three exhibitions opened simultaneously at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv: “Your Emotional Future,” the first personal exhibition by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson...