№39, (2012)
26.06.2012 - 00:00
On goals and compromises
Many US commentators are taking a critical view of the first meeting of the US and Russia leaders after the election of Vladimir Putin for a third presidential term during the G20 summit in Mexico...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
National art with taste of innovation
Ukrainian talented painter Inna Pantelemonova is an example of how national roots are reflected in modern art and are in harmony with innovative and experimental approach without running into...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
Russians win in the Horowitz Competition
A few steps away from the Kyiv fan-zone (with its noisy entertainment and thousands of buffs), the philharmonic society showed an entirely different world. Over the past two weeks it has held the...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
Moderate Islamist will rule Egypt
After a two-day delay on June 23 the results of the second round of presidential elections were announced in Egypt. Right after the vote supporters of the Association “Muslim Brotherhood...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1919: The First Congress of Youth Communist Organizations convenes in Ukraine and forms the Komsomol of Ukraine. 1926: Ukrainian immigrants establish the Ukrainian Workers Self-Education Society as a...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
A world awakener named Petka
You can see sometimes a lady who walks… a rooster in a small park next to Kyiv’s Golden Gate. Passers-by stop to take the photo of a couple that is so unusual for the urban landscape....
26.06.2012 - 00:00
“It is up to us now”
Over the nine years the festival Kraina mrii, which last weekend has again taken place at the capital’s Spivoche Pole (Singing field), has become for many Kyivites a top event of summer. At...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
Commemorating Yurii Kondratiuk’s 115th birth anniversary
Last week the main page of google.com was dedicated to Ukrainian scientist Yurii Kondratiuk’s 115th birth anniversary. The authors of the official blog Google Ukraine quote one of the...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
In reply to Kolesnichenko’s statement
Vadym Kolesnichenko already wants to write down Russian language as the second official one into Ukrainian Constitution. The clashes over the language project by Kivalov and Kolesnichenko have...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
In the condition of “certain balance”
Last summer the expert community mostly viewed 2012 as a year of stability, but they did not dare forecast the situation in 2013 due to tremendous Ukrainian foreign debt payments. The situation in...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
The Girl with a Paddle as a symbol of Soviet totalitarianism and erotica
The exhibit presents about 30 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and works of decorative art of the 1930s-1970s from the collection of the Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art.
The items include the...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
Sweet and sour – three years in Ukraine
About exactly three years ago I arrived to Ukraine for the first time ever. I had ahead of me a three year posting in the Embassy of Finland. Ukraine was quite unknown to me then. Already the fact...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
“You’ll be happy!”
With the election campaign to start officially in late July, po-litical advertising is already well underway. This concerns individual candidates as well as political parties. According to Vitalii...
26.06.2012 - 00:00
Neither Hollywood, nor Facebook can appear in a country with value added tax
“We will continue our work,” this is how Viktor Yanukovych Jr. reacted to his father’s vetoing his legislative initiative. “When there are some contradictions left you have...