Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№33, (2009)

17.11.2009 - 00:00

Firm governance needed

Ukrainians have probably never been as distrustful of their government and protest sentiments have never reached such high levels as now. In early 2009, Research...
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The Kholm icon must become a symbol of Ukraine!

Dear Ms. Larysa Ivshyna,I am sorry to be writing this letter so belatedly. The quarantine has made some changes in our work and life. We would like to thank you for publishing in Den/The Day Natalia...
17.11.2009 - 00:00

EVENT

EU in pocket for curious UkrainiansThe Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Academy of the Ukrainian Press have launched the handbook EU in the Pocket in Kyiv. This reference book provides answers to...
17.11.2009 - 00:00

Forging a European Worldview

WARSAW – Some complain that the European Union lacks a “worldview.” In fact, the EU’s problem is that it has too many of them. Europeans’ common experiences and interests mean that they should...
17.11.2009 - 00:00

Ukrainian swimmer sets record, wins silver in World Cup

On Nov. 10, 2009, Ihor Borysyk, the only Ukrainian representative in the third leg of the 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup in Stockholm, became the first one to win a medal for our team, UNIAN reports....
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Cost of concessions

The economic cooperation committee of the Ukrainian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission is to have a session this Thursday in Yalta, presided over by the Ukrainian and Russian prime ministers. The...
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The pluses of Viktor Yushchenko’s presidency,

Five years ago the Central Election Commission made public the final results of the first round of Ukraine’s presidential elections. 39.87 percent of the electorate voted for Viktor Yushchenko and 39...
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This week in history

Nov. 17 1993: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Nov. 18 2004: The Washington Times reported that the “US is canceling entry visas for people who...
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The confessions of a truth-seeker

The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk) reports that Trinity College, Cambridge, has put on public display the diary of Gareth Jones (1905—1935), a Welsh journalist who dared to say the truth about the Holodomor...
17.11.2009 - 00:00

Orgy of bigots

Oleksandr Volodarsky is an action artist from Luhansk. He has a popular blog. On November 2, Volodarsky and an anonymous female partner stripped in front of the Verkhovna Rada and imitated having sex...
17.11.2009 - 00:00

Mazepa’s flag to go overseas for the first time

On March 20, 2010, Ivan Mazepa’s birthday, the Ukrainian Museum in New York will launch the exhibit Ukraine–Sweden: At the Crossroads of History (it has been on display in the National Museum of...
17.11.2009 - 00:00

“Total control and dependent mass media”

Prominent Russian journalists have been recently leaving the country with increasing frequency. Lately it has become known that Oleg PANFILOV, a professional journalist and head of the Extreme...
17.11.2009 - 00:00

Sad kindness

There is a well-known theory of music as a means of communication via expressing one’s emotions. From a philosophical standpoint, music is a self-sufficient phenomenon of human esthetic interaction...
17.11.2009 - 00:00

Germans to teach Lvivites how to restore ancient gates

German restorers have launched the second masterclass on restoration of historical entry gates in Lviv. They have organized this training within the framework of the Ukrainian-German project “...
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A year with Obama

How fast time goes by! I can remember, as if it were yesterday — but in fact it was in October 2008 — as we, participants in the traditional 9th Ukrainian-American Roundtable, sat in an imposing hall...

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