№36, (2012)
14.06.2012 - 00:00
A breakthrough or a palliative?
Yesterday the first Municipal Animal Shelter was launched in Kharkiv. Kharkiv must be envied by many Ukrainian cities, especially the residents with a sympathetic attitude to the problem. At first...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Iranian-Azerbaijani tension
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton carried out a number of visits to the countries of the South Caucasus. A wide range of questions was discussed. But there were only two main ones:...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
An attentive look in the mirror
It is hot outside and the atmosphere in the National Ivan Franko Theater is blazing too: it is holding the last rehearsals of the play Paradise Affair. The premiere will take place on June 14 and...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1783: Date of birth of the city of Sevastopol. 1921: Soviet Ukraine’s Radnarkom adopts a decree on the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN). 1940: The Radnarkom and the Central Committee of the...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
From Pushkin to Sakharov Square
On June 12 mass protest actions demanding to dismiss Putin were held in Moscow and other Russian cities. Surprisingly, all the actions were authorized by the government within the claimed format....
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Make a performance and forget about it
Yurii Shevchenko, just like a border guard, rises between two sovereign states – theater and music. Both of these “states” are his creative homeland, crossing border is visa free...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine and Ukrainians. Chernihiv region
Chernihiv Polissia is a unique region of Slavic world. Researchers have always had interest in this area and wrote their studies defining Chernihiv region as one of the natural habitats of the...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Euro-2012: Warsaw impressions
The Day before yesterday, on the eve of a crucial Poland vs. Russia match, a Russian aged about 40 and wrapped from head to toe in a white-red-blue flag asked me whom I wished to win. I only smiled...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Romney, Russia, and Ukraine
President Barack Obama’s private remarks to Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev at a summit in Seoul in March, unleashed a foreign policy storm between the White House and Mitt Romney, the...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Searching for gas partners
Listening to representatives of the Ukrainian government one might have an impression that nearly all the energy problems in the country have been resolved. In his recent interview to Bloomberg...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
The Rivne oblast to host the Ukrainian Wheelchair Dance Sport Cup
It will be held in Ukraine for the first time. Most couples will represent the Rivne oblast.
At the same time the competition is quite ambitious since it is likely to become international next...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Heroes of Ukraine – with five matches still to play
Last Monday evening, standing on the packed Olympic Stadium grandstand that was crazy with joy over the victory of the Ukraine national soccer team over the team of Sweden, I recalled the same...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
First results
“The campaign led against Ukraine for the past few years, not even months – that we would not be able to prepare – has failed. Ukraine has managed to prepare,” Ukrainian...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine has at least five “pillars” today
For a third year in a row, the Swiss IMD-Lausanne business school ranks Ukraine as one of the least attractive states for opening and doing business in its World Competitiveness Yearbook. We were...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Elite music and soccer
On June 20 Nino Katamadze will sing in Kyiv fan zone. Well-known Georgian singer Nino Katamadze and band Insight who plays the mix of folk, jazz and rock – elegant fusion – are...