№36, (2012)
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
“Golden Apples” by Volodymyr Dziubenko
On this occasion exhibitions of the artist’s works were already held in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Chernivtsi, and Parkhomivtsi in Kharkiv region. In every place where the master...
14.06.2012 - 00:00
Was the collapse of an apartment building in Lutsk a result of dereliction of duty?
Whole Ukraine knows already about the collapse of a part of an apartment building in Lutsk, where people were asleep at the time of the accident. Bearing structures between two parts of the...
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
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
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...
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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...
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Themis stood up for dogs
Finally, the law of Ukraine “On protection of animals from cruelty” started working. On June 11 Sviatoshynsky District Court of Kyiv sentenced student Aleks Vedula to four years in...
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
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
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
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
“It becomes harder to strangle the freedom”
Has Ukraine managed to make use of the chance for modernization to the full? Most of experts and parties (of various colors and cadencies) have interpreted both the economic crisis and the UEFA...
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
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...