№3, (2009)
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ELibUkr
The unique project “Electronic library of Ukraine (ELibUkr): setting up knowledge centers in Ukrainian universities” was launched in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on Jan. 26, 2009. ELibUkr aims at facilitating...
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Fighting the heritage of passivity <I>The Day</I> in Ostroh Academy
There were many reasons for The Day’s meeting in Ostroh. Many new and interesting things have happened both in the newspaper and Ostroh Academy in the six months since The Day’s editor in chief...
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Ukrainian spiritual elite
(Conclusion. For beginning, see The Day No. 2)
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych’s poems were published along with overtly anti-Soviet works of Spyrydon Cherkasenko and Borys Lysiansky. Ohiienko was creating...
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How much longer will Ukraine be a gray zone?
Ukraine’s pro-European choice is beyond doubt now. However, we have to take a series of well-thought-out and consistent steps that will lead to our EU membership. One of these steps is Ukraine’s NATO...
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Deadly orphanage
Hard facts have been established, revealing the horrible truth about the death of small inmates of an orphanage in downtown Zaporizhia 75 years ago. The city learned the tragic story after...
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Artek: problems for adults
SIMFEROPOL—Artek, an international children recreation center , has long had a chronic fever. Nearly every spring Russian media filled the informational space with “news” of its demise, and every...
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Playing with fire
Confrontation between the head of government and the head of state, triggered by the latter, has shifted to the budgetary sphere. In his unscheduled televised address to the nation Viktor Yushchenko...
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Births and deaths
In spite of all kinds of difficulties, some regions of Ukraine cannot say they are in a demographic crisis. This applies, above all, to Kyiv, Transcarpathian, and Rivne oblasts, where, according to...
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Davos not the same as before
The world closely followed the events in the Swiss city of Davos, hoping to hear about a way to save the world economy. Observers note, however, that the hopes pinned on the Davos wise men may fail....
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SBU to declassify Soviet-era documents
On Jan. 23, 2009, President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine issued the decree “On Declassifying, Publishing, and Studying Archival Documents Linked to the Ukrainian National Liberation Struggle,...
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Alexander Nevsky: a symbol of Russia,
On the Sunday evening of December 28, 2008, Russia TV channel announced live the personality chosen as symbol of the nation. In a three-month-long nationwide Internet and SMS vote, the public chose...
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Book reveals new facts about Ukraine and Lithuania in the Middle Ages
Few Kyivites know that toward the end of the 15th century this city was granted the Magdeburg Rights (also known as Magdeburg Law) by Grand Duke Alexander of Lithuania. Few Lithuanians know that...
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This week in history
Feb. 3 1940: The Ukrainian Canadian Committee is founded in Winnipeg. 1997: The Nuclear Insurance Pool of Ukraine is officially registered as a nonprofit organization uniting a group of Ukrainian...
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Loan issues
The current economic situation is becoming increasingly reminiscent of what happened in the mid-1990s, regardless of the shows put up by the powers that be on television, in which prefabricated...
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Ukraine fights monopolists
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has recently presented in Kyiv its first external assessment of the situation with Ukraine’s policy and legislation on competitiveness...