№42, (2012)
07.08.2012 - 00:00
Scrapping the scrap
Owing to a reduced worldwide demand for metals, Ukraine’s steel-making industry is losing ground step by step. The Bloomberg agency reported recently that, according to the Delphica Project research...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
Artists on historic faces of cities
Today more and more artists work with the urban motives and urban landscape. However, their vision of the same streets, gardens, and squares is quite different. Ukrainian artist and art expert Vira...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
From the US to the Ukrainian parliament
The scandalous former prime minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is planning to return to the politics and run for the Verkhovna Rada. Thus, the official website of the All-Ukrainian organization...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
On the eve of the decisive battle
Syria’s economic capital Aleppo (Halab) has been plagued by war for nearly two weeks now. They are much crueler and longer than the skirmishes in the official capital, Damascus, which had preceded...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
Will IT industry receive priority?
The president of Ukraine has finally signed one of the two documents granting tax incentives to the IT sector. Starting from the next year, the IT business is given the VAT exemption for ope...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
Letters to Ukraine – 18
How do these people arrive at what they are? That man idly kicking a dog in the street. The woman you bump into, who scowls at your genuine apology. The teenager slumped in an alleyway clutching a...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
Government is looking for new markets for metallurgy and chemical products
Ukraine asks the US to cancel anti-dumping duties for Ukrainian metallurgy and chemical products. Reuters reports that this request was expressed by First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Valerii...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
Britain... between Ukraine and Russia
The fact that a Ukrainian boxer was unfairly judged at the London Olympics for the whole world to see has not become a point of heated debates in society or an occasion for protests against the...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
A new tax to be levied in Ukraine
In 2013 Ukraine could get another tax, that on turnover. This change is provided in the concept of taxation reform, which is now being developed by the State Tax Administration, jointly with...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
To a good genius...
Festivities in Feodosiia began with the laying of flowers and wreaths at the great artist’s grave, followed by a concert of musicians, including participants in the 19th international music festival...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
Environmentalism as mortal danger
This country was the other day shocked with the news that environmentalist Volodymyr Honcharenko was murdered in Dnipropetrovsk oblast. It is difficult and even mortally dangerous to be an...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
Pluralism for the president of the Russian Federation
“Putin, go away!”, “Turn your mandate in!”, “Leave!” – with such appeals written on the walkways youth camp Seliger welcomed Vladimir Putin. This was Putin’s third visit there. And if the previous...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
“As long as we project a pseudo-folklore image, nobody will hurt us…”
The Dnipropetrovsk region-born Valerii Semenenko is a well-known figure among Russia’s Ukrainians. Way back in the Soviet era, he, a rocket designer, moved to Moscow. During the Gorbachev perestroika...
07.08.2012 - 00:00
“A slow civil war is underway in our country. It has never ended”
Aleksandr Proshkin’s name does not need any promotion. Having come to cinema from theater (after graduation from the theater institute he worked in the well-known Leningrad Theater of Comedy...