№32, (2014)
15.05.2014 - 11:56
Black Sea, Askania-Nova, the Oleshky Sands...
Several resort towns of the region held grand openings of the tourist season. For instance, Skadovsk saw a carnival procession, a dance flash mob, a concert featuring local performing groups, and...
15.05.2014 - 11:54
289 against corruption. What about the rest?
Ukrainian parliament of this convocation is not so hopeless. They have started to work at last. Whether it has happened as a result of the pressure of the public (initiative “Reanimation Reform...
15.05.2014 - 11:52
Why did 6 paratroopers get killed near Kramatorsk?
Terrorists fired from an ambush on a military convoy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kramatorsk on May 13. Militants made extensive preparations for the attack which used emplacements established...
15.05.2014 - 11:51
Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s wrong approach
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has appointed German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger its negotiator on the situation in Ukraine. This was announced by Chairman of the OSCE...
15.05.2014 - 11:47
On Lithuania election and Putin’s scenarios
Unlike in the 2009 presidential elections, the current President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaite, failed to score a victory in the first round. She won almost 47 percent of the votes, while the...
15.05.2014 - 11:45
Viktor Orban’s unfriendly statement
Official statement by the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban citing the need for an autonomous status and dual citizenship to be granted to the Hungarians living in neighboring countries,...
15.05.2014 - 11:43
What TV towers cost at times
For more than two days terrorists have held Ukrainian troops guarding the TV tower in Sloviansk (Donetsk oblast) under siege and fire. Another attempt to seize the strategic facility took place on...
15.05.2014 - 11:29
The Party of Regions... without regions
There is perhaps no other political force in Ukraine whose popularity ratings plummeted so dramatically. In just a few months the recently most powerful Party of Regions lost everything. Billboards...
15.05.2014 - 11:22
One more anti-corruption “warrior”
The government of Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) signed a memorandum of understanding on the Ukrainian anti-corruption initiatives, involving the...
15.05.2014 - 11:20
Naftohaz vs. Gazprom
On June 28 Ukraine may sue Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, at the Stockholm Arbitration Court, Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk said earlier last week.The government and the national joint stock...
15.05.2014 - 11:17
How to properly ban the Communist Party of Ukraine?
The Communist Party may disappear from the political map of Ukraine. “There are many materials regarding KPU’s implication in organization of terroristic and separatist activity,”...
15.05.2014 - 10:39
They died for us
Two soldiers from the Zhytomyr 95th Separate Airmobile Brigade were killed in a terrorist attack near Sloviansk, Donetsk oblast on May 2. They were 20 and 28.It happened on a bridge over the Sukhy...
14.05.2014 - 18:13
A special mission
The 48-hour-long marathon of new music in Odesa ended just before the tragic events that have taken place in the city. The phrase from Bernhard Wulff’s speech at the opening ceremony of “...
14.05.2014 - 18:09
“A wealth of uncovered subjects is the trump card of Ukrainian reporting”
“I have long doubted the veracity of Theodor Adorno’s quote that after Auschwitz poetry is impossible,” wrote the poet, essayist, and reporting journalist Les Belei at the beginning...
14.05.2014 - 18:07
“Understanding a poem means hearing it in the first place”
Deep interests towards Mexico and social responsibility prevailed in any genre of Paz’s creative work. However, his inclination towards the mystical set him aside from all other authors....