№39, (2009)
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At the rear of the rival
Today one can frequently see billboards that claim “The Donbas does not change its convictions. Yanukovych is our president!” in the east of Ukraine. But they prove wrong as it does change. According...
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Anti-crisis ABC of art
The catalogue presents the works of 102 artists and sculptors. According to exhibit organizers, it took four months to choose the exposition, its prime criterion being the ability to give a full...
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Old problems, new aspects
The topic of immigration is one of the main challenges faced by the countries of the European Union. Although immigration policy remains the prerogative of national governments, the EU is quite...
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Forgotten war
TSAR NICHOLAS II GOT RUSSIA INVOLVED IN WWI
The Kremlin and hits civilian-clad historians recently ignited ideological battles over the causes and motive forces of World War II, which have swept...
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Viktor Yushchenko on Ukraine’s key strategy
European integration remains Ukraine’s key strategy, a means of self-assertion as an independent European democracy, and a motive for domestic reforms, declared President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine...
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St. Nicholas’ house
On December 18 to January 14, one can come and see in Kyiv the venerable St. Nicholas (Mykolai), whom children love so much. As the organizers told The Day, St. Nicholas’ official residence was set...
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Gogol returns to Vevey
Last Friday a large number of people gathered on an embankment in the Swiss town of Vevey. Representatives of Switzerland’s municipal and federal authorities, diplomats from over 15 countries,...
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Bologna process: failure or fresh start?
It has been four years since the start of the Bologna process in Ukraine. However, students as the immediate participants of this educational innovation cannot see either noticeable progress or the...
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MY YEAR — MY DAY-2009
1. Traditionally, what are your personal ratings of the most important events in 2009, in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world?2. Do you think that Ukraine and Ukrainians have changed over the past...
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NEWS
Bell-ringers to be trained in LutskThe Volyn Seminary has launched a bell-ringing group, which was blessed by the Bishop of Lutsk and Volyn Nifont. The classes take place in the ancient Lutsk castle...
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“On the Road to the Bright World”
That evening the Luigi Sturzo Institute was unusually quiet, with only one conference hall lit — and this in the merrily bustling center of Rome shortly before Christmas, with hospitably open...
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Nice springboard for achievements,
The participants of the 19th annual Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program have returned to Ukraine, full of positive emotions from their sojourn in Canada and knowledge they acquired while working in...
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This week in history
1653: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s troops defeat the Polish army at Zhvanets. 1917: Soviet Russia’s Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom) issues a decree that transfers education from religious...
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Youth should not stand aside
The music of the Ukrainian Georgian band Gorgisheli is caused not so much by the creative striving for originality, although this search is a perpetual process for every musician, as by life itself....
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Ukraine joins European “knowledge bank”
In Lviv Ukraine officially signed an agreement to link UARNET, the Ukrainian network of fiber optic electronic communication, to the Polish academic system of communication Pioneer, which is a part...