№41, (2012)
02.08.2012 - 00:00
“I do not like the art that surprises you and then makes you forget it”
Vladyslav Shereshevsky is a born artist and a true original. He is famous for his wit in traditional painting and quotations in pictures. His pictures are very “readable” for this...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1914: In Lviv the Ukrainian political parties unite to form the Supreme Ukrainian Council. 1914: The Boyova uprava (Battle Administration) of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen is formed as an organizing...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Between two, there is no lesser evil
According to Romania’s Central Election Bureau, the referendum on President Traian Basescu’s impeachment, which was over till late at night on July 30, was deemed void due to a low turnout. Thus,...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
How “the Ukraine brand” is forming
Liberia is a small and long-suffering country in West Africa. Its thee-million-strong population went through a lot of things at the turn of the millenniums: the 1980 coup d’etat, a 10-year-...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Arsenale 2012: among the capitalists, bureaucrats, and artists
The closing night of the Kyiv Arsenale started with anarchists. A couple of guys at the entrance to the Mystetsky Arsenal were handing out leaflets with calls to resist the “bloc of capital and red...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Affection in advance
The recent political activity of the parties looks like a parade of party congresses. Yesterday Vitalii Klitschko’s party UDAR was the last one among the parties that stand the chance to make it to...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Programmers have received 10-year tax breaks
A system of tax incentives for the domestic IT industry has been introduced which will take effect on January 1, 2013. The incentives are provided for in the Law “On Amendments to Chapter 20 (...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Will Iran close the Strait of Hormuz?
Recently some mass media contained publications that Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) adopted the law on shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. As the mass media informed before, Iran’s Minister of Foreign...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Mason you wouldn’t find in textbooksT
Viktor VOZNIAK, organizer of the festival is certain that if Franko lived among us today he would be using social networks and would be among the young people. The inspirers of the first Franko...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine’s second gold medal at the London Olympics is the first in rowing in the history of this country
The Day before yesterday, July 31, Ukraine won a second gold medal at the London Olympics, this time in the women’s quadruple sculls (Kateryna Tarasenko, Natalia Dovhodko, Anastasia...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Lytvyn has signed the law on languages. Will Yanukovych sign it?
On July 31 the head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine signed the odious and resonant law on languages that gives Russian the status of the regional language. He did it regardless of all his previous...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Arming the asylum
NEW YORK – The horror has become almost routine. This time, the massacre site was a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where accused shooter James Holmes murdered and injured dozens of moviegoers. In...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
Kyiv chestnut trees to be replaced by the Japanese gingkoes
Chestnut trees are thought to have become the symbol of Kyiv in the 17th-19th centuries when in 1842 the then Kyiv mayor governor-general Bibikov planted an alley of chestnuts in Bibikov Boulevard (...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
The Dnipropetrovsk underground: light at the end of the tunnel
The agreement about granting a loan for finishing the shortest metro in the world has been signed in Dnipropetrovsk with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Due to the loan, it...
02.08.2012 - 00:00
British monarchy can afford self-irony
Not only was the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games impressive, but it also focused our attention on several important issues. According to numerous mass media publications, the show made Britons...