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

№37, (2005)

22.11.2005 - 00:00

The door is open, but still a long way off

The Ukraine-EU summit that will be held in Kyiv on Dec. 1 is not likely to be a historic event. It will mostly deal with Ukraine’s progress on the Action Plan, signed with the EU this year, and...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

“Eyes of the Maidan”

This woman stood on the Maidan in November-December 2004. The camera zeroed in on her face among thousands of others and caught a common expression of those days: expectation and hope. Those were...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

Monument to Holodomor victims to be unveiled in Washington

The House of Representatives of the US Congress has passed a resolution authorizing the Ukrainian government to erect a monument in Washington to the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor, Ukrainski...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

A Gift from America

US has made a present to Ukraine. Even if being half of what it could have been, this kind of support extended to Kyiv is noteworthy. The US Senate unanimously voted for the repeal of the Jackson-...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

The likely “international fruits” of the Orange Revolution

In a few days Ukraine will be celebrating the first anniversary of the Orange Revolution, a significant event in the history of this country. There were revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

This week in history

November 22, 1655. Bohdan Khmelnytsky started negotiations with the Crimean Khan on his neutrality in the Cossacks’ war against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1901. A mass students’...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

“On your mark!”

The parliamentary election campaign in Ukraine is just a few days away: the official start is scheduled for Nov. 26. A resolution to this effect was passed on Nov. 18 by all 13 attending members of...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

“Intellectuals and Political Power:” why is there an abyss between them?

The latest annual Fulbright conference, held for the first time in Lviv rather than in Kyiv, gathered about 150 academics from various corners of Ukraine. All of them have participated in a Fulbright...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

The Ukrainian road: long but winnable

The reshuffles in Russia’s “upper echelons” are further proof of the strengthening of the power vertical. Ukraine has chosen a different path of development based on a decentralization of power. The...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

Social advertising festival

The 1st National Social Advertising Festival opens in Kyiv on Nov. 30. Its organizers are the Ministry of Family, Youth, and Sports; the State Social Service for Family, Children, and Youth; the...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

President Yushchenko appoints judges to Constitutional Court

President Viktor Yushchenko has signed an edict appointing Volodymyr Kampo, Viktor Shyshkin, and Dmytro Lilak to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. Prior to this the head of state met with the...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

Piskun forever?

Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky Court has ruled to reinstate Sviatoslav Piskun as Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The court handed down this ruling last Friday during the second hearing of this case. “Under...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

Foreign ministry issues reassurances

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine issued a clarification following comments in the press concerning the appointment, or to be more exact, the non-appointment, of Ukrainian ambassadors. The...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

Folios are going digital

Scholars from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in collaboration with Polish colleagues, have begun a unique project to digitalize unique library collections. The practical work of...
22.11.2005 - 00:00

The West will help us

President Viktor Yushchenko has turned for assistance to prominent political technologists John Podesta and Michael McCarry, who worked on the team of former US President Bill Clinton. The American...

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