№31, (2011)
02.06.2011 - 00:00
“An agrarian Switzerland”
The government set such high standards for agrarians back in 2007, having included a list of relevant requirements in the program of Ukraine’s rural development until year 2015.
The...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
The founders’ crossroads
Hnat Yura is at last coming back to his dear theater that he directed for over forty years. And what years! The Civil War, Ukrainization, fighting against “nationalism,” mass...
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Reviewing the formula
The next round of talks aimed at reviewing the gas contracts signed in 2009 between Ukraine and Russia will take place in a week, on June 7. This time the negotiations will be held on a prime-...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
Photos of the Pope collected in Lviv
Lviv — The Lviv Archeparchy, Internet portal “Catholic observer” and the Department of Culture of Lviv’s Municipal Council have started selecting photographs for the “...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
Artists from Lviv triumph in Melikhovo
Den recently reported (The Day’s Ukrainian edition; no. 80-81) that the Lviv Zankovetska National Theater was welcomed to the 12th International Theater Festival Melikhovo Spring for the 11th...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
This day in history
1795: The Russian Empire orders Right-Bank Ukraine’s gubernias reorganized as namestnichestvo viceregencies. 1842: The second volume of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls comes off the presses. 1918: Germany...
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Spanish interest in Ukraine
Ukraine and Spain were victims of dictatorships for a long time, Stalin’s and Franco’s respectively. The Kingdom of Spain healed rather quickly from the damage Franco’s...
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Border controls in line with European standards
Much to the joy of entrepreneurs an updated version of the customs regulations has been submitted for parliamentary consideration. This is the second most important, after the Tax Code, document...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
Russian intellectuals express concern over country’s future
Fourteen prominent cultural figures and human rights activists in Russia addressed a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, warning them against an impending...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
Exhausted deposits to be revived
The oil and gas sectors are currently facing exhausted deposits, announced the Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yurii Boiko during a meeting in Poltava oblast. “About 60 percent of our...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
“The Treasure Island”
Not long ago, under the soviet rule, Kamianets-Podilsky was considered to be an industrial town rather than a touristic one. However, it became a tourist center within a short period of time. Every...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
Letters to Ukraine – 5
Why must all good things come to an end? We work for security, then watch our investments falter. We constantly reform civic society to uphold our most sovereign morals, with partial success. Each...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
The unpredictable routes of the generations
Lutsk — The compiler of the book Routes of the Generations, Candidate of Science (History), journalist, and history teacher Lesia Bondaruk says that this fact has induced some of her...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
Why can’t Ukrainian institutions of higher education compete with foreign ones?
An unprecedented event took place in Kyiv last week: over 100 leading Ukrainian institutions of higher education gathered at the first higher education summit in order to discuss the plans for...
02.06.2011 - 00:00
Three barriers to free trade
The agreement on a Free Trade Area (FTA) between Ukraine and the EU is virtually ready, with only three unsettled questions remaining, to which the Ukrainian authorities are trying to find a...