№41, (2002)
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Oleksandr KARPOV: “The Appeasement of an Aggressor Ends in a Fiasco”
“What made you resign as parliamentary majority coordinator? Your colleagues have so far just been making conjectures on this point...”
“Let me remind you I once warned journalists that I would...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
New-Time Cave Drawings Are Usually Made at Night
They should be evaluated by two or three local professionals, for they are not considered graffiti unless orally assessed.
“Without a seal and a triangular stamp?!” a Soviet-to-the-backbone...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
The weekend before last the Kennel Association of Ukraine invited everybody to visit the Ukraine Crystal Cup 2002 international dog show
Some 1,200 dogs and their owners took part. For many of them their dogs were also a major source of income, so, apart from the competition, the exhibit was meant to detect the best breeds for...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Ad Fontes, ad Libros, Ad Osnovy!
Talking about refined editions — in terms of contents and printing art — I am reminded of those small masterpieces produced by the Osnovy Publishers, even though most of them are not actually small;...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Fruit from Shevchenko’s Land
Trying to picture the manager of the Shevchenko Homeland State Preserve, one is likely to end visualizing a dignified academic-type lady wearing thick glasses, or maybe an overconfident bureaucrat,...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Emmanuel, a Name Mentioned In the Annals of Three Peoples
Cavalry General Georgy Emmanuel, of Serbian parentage, hero of the war during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia (known in Russian/Soviet history as the Patriotic War of 1812), played an important role in...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Hurry to Do Good!
“Hurry to do good!” Fedir Plotnir quoted Oleksandr Dovzhenko, addressing and setting the tone of a meeting in Kirovohrad between the local intelligentsia and the Den’s Chief Editor Larysa Ivshyna...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Serhiy Byzov Inspired by Jacqueline Kennedy
Renowned couturier Serhiy Byzov, one of the cofounders of the Fashion Seasons in Ukraine, hadn’t demonstrated his collections in the Ukrainian pret-в-porter weeks for the last few years, preferring...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
No Need to Monopolize Memory of the Tragedy
The prospective construction of a Jewish community center at Babyn Yar (place of a mass-scale execution of Kyivans by the Nazis — Ed.) has been the point of heated debates in both Jewish and non-...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Is Mass-Scale Construction of Temples In Kyiv Really Necessary?
It is not a new piece of information in principle that city builders, encouraged by the first “epoch-making” construction projects in Kyiv, have decided to go further and begin rebuilding temples....
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Moscow Patriarchy: No Compromise
The Moscow Patriarchy condemns Cardinal Liubomyr Huzar’s statement on the possibility of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) gaining patriarchal status. A UGCC Patriarchate in Ukraine would...
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Ecumenical Dialog: The Ideal and the Reality
INTRODUCTION
The Catholic Church has finally and irreversibly decided on an ecumenical dialog. Naturally, we proceed from the underlying resolutions of the Second Vatican Council, later...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Swindlers and Wheelers-Dealers May Get a Chance
The National Bank (NBU) and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine suggest to Verkhovna Rada that the number of entrepreneurial units authorized to open foreign currency exchange outlets on the basis of...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
Chicago Ukrainian Helps Handicapped Children
December 18, the Handicapped Children’s Early Social Rehabilitation Center of Volochysk received its first patients . The new and much-needed institution has an extraordinary history. Last Christmas...
24.12.2002 - 00:00
European choice: challenges and controversies
LET’S NOT GET PANIC-STRICKEN
There was an overemotional response in Ukraine to EU dignitaries saying that Ukraine’s EU membership makes no sense at the time, that the possibility won’t even be...