№4, (2004)
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Liberia: First Steps of the Ukrainian Contingent
The African country of Liberia, although far away from Ukraine, has finally become close to Ukrainians — not only to the one hundred and sixty one helicopter pilots, who arrived there in mid-January...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Kyiv hosts the Design For Every Body exhibition
The most important thing is to determine the genre. The Design for Every Body exhibition that has opened at the Center of Contemporary Art at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University can be...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Fable and Monstrosity
The theme of good versus evil is eternal, much like that of fun versus boredom. It thus has been and always thus will be, as our forbears had predestined. Thus, again and again in the name of good...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Soccer players, walruses, and amateur ornithologists busy themselves in Kyiv’s Hydro Park
In late January the editors told us to find out what Kyivans busy themselves with on weekends, Kyiv’s Hydro Park resort, the site of our field trip. We were in no mood for the outing, picturing...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
In the Ukrainian historical calendar, January 29, 1918, marks the tragedy of Kruty
People my age never heard (and could they have heard) about it when studying at school. They never read young Pavlo Tychyna’s poem Pamyati Trydtsiaty (In Memory of Thirty [Martyrs]) with these lines...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
When the Thread Does Not Break
There are rare celebrants of jubilees who, instead of receiving presents, give out generous gifts to all around them, for they share nothing but the divine gift of their own talent. Heartfelt...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Oleksandr Babak’s Earth Codes one-man show opened at the Ukrainian House
The exhibition hall is turned into a maze of full-size photographs, depicting residents of a village that has by now vanished from the map of Ukraine. Other, smaller ones present trenches, haycocks,...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
On The Day’s style, ratings of events, and distrust
As earlier reported, the National Journalists Union of Ukraine hosted a meeting with The Day’s Editor-in-Chief Larysa Ivshyna in Kyiv last Monday, as part of a seminar for heads of press services....
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Opting for Outdated Technologies?
There are conflicting assessments of the current economic situation. Some authors are bubbling with optimism, taking into account high economic growth rates. Others, pointing at the obvious...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Should We Make Arms for Everybody?
Oleksandr HUBENKO, editor-in-chief, Practical Psychology and Social Work magazine:
“The question of whether we should allow our citizens to purchase and bear the arms is complicated and requires...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Unique Ukrainian surgeon Petro Fomin does not share the common stereotype that a surgeon’s “golden hands” is the only thing that can save the patient
This happened three years ago at Stafford, where Kyiv surgeon Petro Fomin sojourned at the invitation of his British colleagues. Having learned that he resorts to diaphragmatic access in serious...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Russia and Ukraine embark on a new tariff war
The last week of January, during which Ukraine hoped to resolve with Russia fare policy issues in the sphere of international rail freight transportation, is over.
It will be recalled that...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Democracy at Bay
Eight of the countries that will enter the European Union in May 2004 were until recently governed by totalitarian dictatorships and enslaved by another nation. The return of governments based on the...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
Mykhailo Pohrebynsky on the stimuli for parties, opposition’s ways to survive, and centrist zeal
Mykhailo Pohrebynsky, Director of the Center of Political and Conflict Studies, has spent fifteen years in the realm of political analysis and consulting. Since 1998, he has been involved with...
03.02.2004 - 00:00
The British Give Homes to Zakarpattia Children
Recently the head of the Zakarpattia Oblast State Administration Ivan Rizak met with representative of the Hope and Homes for Children international organization Mark Cook and head of this...