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

№4, (2006)

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120 moments with the president

On Feb. 9 the Verkhovna Rada hosted a photography exhibit dedicated to President Viktor Yushchenko’s one year in office. The photos reflect the president’s political and public endeavors, visits...
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We and the empire

This installment concludes the publication of Stanislav Kulchytsky’s study on Ukraine’s existence within empires and some enduring historical myths. Continued from No. 2 and 3 7. THE SOVIET UNION AS...
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Is the patient alive rather than dead?

Habitually a great deal of attention is paid to the countryside and agriculture on the eve of elections in Ukraine. This year, marked as the Year of the Dog by the Oriental calendar, has been...
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Legislative “traps” can catch about one million voters

About one million Ukrainians will not be able to cast their votes in the parliamentary and local council elections due to limitations in the election law, Ihor Popov, chairman of the Committee of...
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What is alarming Western experts about our elections?

The international community is closely following the election campaign in Ukraine. Last week great interest was aroused among Western analysts by the statement of the Party of Regions leader Viktor...
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Kyiv going under

Many monuments of Kyiv’s history and architecture are at risk, says Ruslan Kukharenko, chief of the Department for the Protection of Kyiv’s Cultural Heritage. Underground waters are eroding...
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This week in history

February 14, 1914 . An election reform took place in Halychyna, allowing Ukrainians to occupy one-third of the seats in Sejm. 1993. Hungary, Poland, and Ukraine signed a declaration On the...
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The task that cannot be accomplished

The ninth parliamentary session, the last for this convocation, opened in a surprisingly quiet manner. There were no huge rallies in front of the Verkhovna Rada last Wednesday morning, and no...
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First blood

Last Thursday Ukraine’s parliamentarians sprinkled President Yushchenko’s path to the parliamentary rostrum with blood. The blood came from the nose of Our Ukraine faction leader Mykola Martynenko,...
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A moment of history revisited

Two events occurred simultaneously at Lesia Ukrainka Volyn State University on Feb. 8: the opening of The Day’s photography exhibit and the launch of the latest two books from our newspaper’s Library...
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“Let’s live in friendship”

The freedom of one individual ends where the freedom of another begins: this is the bottom line of the press conference “Freedom and Responsibility: Seeking Mutual Understanding” held last Friday in...
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The threat of “Little Russianization”: politicians’ views

Three civic associations — Yevhen Chykalenko Club represented by Volodymyr Panchenko; Citizens’ Platform represented by Vasyl Boichuk, and the all-Ukraine civic action “Don’t Be Apathetic,”...
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Ukraine-Russia: 7:4

It was not until the end of the First Channel Cup tournament held in Israeli stadiums that the objective of this competition became clear. The initially peculiar formula of clubs from the same...
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Elections without borders: foreign ministry setting up polling stations

On March 26, Election Day, approximately 387,000 Ukrainian citizens will be casting their votes abroad. This number of potential voters was revealed to journalists by Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign...
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Hostage of politics

The results of Ukraine’s economic progress in 2005, which ended in a scandalously low GDP growth of 2.4 percent, are being discussed by everyone but the lazy. The range of assessments is broad: the...

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