№30, (2004)
09.11.2004 - 00:00
14,000 Ukrainian Women Suffer from Breast Cancer
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the breast cancer rate is not decreasing. One million women throughout the world suffer from this disease, 14,000 of whom live in Ukraine. The...
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This Week In History
November 9. 1976. The Ukrainian Public Group to Support Implementing the Helsinki Agreements was founded. 1977. The Ukrainian Helsinki Group made public its Manifesto of the Ukrainian Human Rights...
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“We Must Remember That We Are Representing A Great Nation”
The most complete illustrated history of the outstanding politician and historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky, which until now has been part of Kyiv’s Mykhailo Hrushevsky Historical Memorial Museum, is now...
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Presidential Administration Believes There Is More “Common Sense” Now
The presidential elections demonstrated that Ukraine is a democracy, said deputy chairman of the Presidential Administration Vasyl Baziv last Friday. According to him, the first round indicated the “...
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RUNOFF ELECTION: WHAT’S A WIN-WIN FORMULA FOR UKRAINE’S FUTURE?
The first round of the presidential elections has taken place in Ukraine. Overall, both the voting and the vote count passed calmly, in sharp contrast to the pessimistic forecasts. Aside from...
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“Red Letter Day”
This year’s November 7 marks an anniversary of what is known as either the Great October Socialist Revolution or the Bolshevik October coup — depending on how you look at it. Be that it may, the...
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The Giving Hand Shall not Falter
In 2004, Ukraine’s Justice Ministry registered a record low number of charitable organizations. Until recently, Ukraine had an annual average of seventy organizations with international status and...
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Pressure at the Exit
A juicy scandal has erupted among Ukraine’s sociologists. What is more, it erupted (or, to be more precise, continued) at a press conference, where the National 2004 Exit Poll Consortium disclosed...
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The Heavy Burden of Reconciliation
Continued from The Day No. 29
THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION
Adam Kysil shouldered the incredibly heavy burden of fulfilling the Treaty of Zboriv, especially the Cossacks’ demand to abolish the Uniate...
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Ukraine — Poland: Without Stereotypes
Little over a month has passed since the publication in Ukrainian and Polish of the third book of The Day’s Library Series, Viyny i Myr [Wars and Peace], under the general editorship of Larysa...
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Kwasniewski Speaks out for Televised Debates in Ukraine
Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski wants to see more observers monitoring the runoff elections in Ukraine, a ProEurope correspondent in Warsaw quotes Kwasniewski as saying during his televised...
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A Shortage of Families
Ukraine is currently home to nearly ten million children. But not all of them are growing in well-to-do families. Children from problem families are raised in orphanages, boarding schools, and foster...
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Orange Colored Sky
In the past three weeks there hasn’t been a single weekend without an opposition rally in Kyiv. The past Saturday was no exception, as tens of thousands of Kyivans flocked to the main city square for...
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Molodist-34: Victories and Autumnal Moods
Last weekend, Kyiv’s Ukrayina Palace hosted the traditional ceremony launching the 34th Kyiv Molodist Film Festival, which culminated in the screening of Kira Muratova’s Nastroyshchik [The Tuner]. Of...
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Muscle Traction
On April Fool’s Day the journalists at one Kyiv publication published a spoof declaring that because of the tense traffic situation, trishaws will soon appear in Ukraine’s capital. The hoax proved...