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

№44, (2016)

10.08.2016 - 18:14

Turkish drift?

On August 9, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first foreign visit after the failed coup. The Turkish leader arrived in St. Petersburg at the head of a large delegation to hold talks...
10.08.2016 - 18:12

Just realities

No comments. Just realities. Yevhen Marchuk, representative of Ukraine in the security working group of the Trilateral Contact Group, advises in his Facebook page “pay special attention to:...
10.08.2016 - 18:01

Volhynia-43: a tragedy, not a “weapon”

There are enough politicians and intellectuals in Ukraine who do not think it necessary at all to react in any way to the resolutions of Poland’s Senate and Sejm “to honor the victims of...
10.08.2016 - 17:53

An approaching storm

For a few months this year, government officials in Moscow experienced a certain feeling of euphoria. Oil prices had not only stopped falling, but had even moderately increased. Exports had increased...
10.08.2016 - 17:50

“There isn’t and won’t be any freedom of speech in Russian journalism”

Genetic scientist Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s writing career began in the 1960s due to a whim of fate, when the Soviets fired her and charged her with dissident activities. “After all, Chekhov...
10.08.2016 - 17:48

Science can be created at home!

17-year-old Kyivite Nikita Gordiienko’s Ukrainian vocabulary includes a variety of English words like machine learning, big data, pattern – “I mostly read the literature in English...
10.08.2016 - 17:43

Caricature as a challenge for propaganda

The visual component is important in the design of print media. A well-chosen caricature can be an especially expressive element of the text, extending its limits and supplementing it or emphasizing...
10.08.2016 - 17:30

“You cannot imagine in what terrible ‘pocket’ we are living”

Marina Razbezhkina was born on July 17, 1948 in Kazan. In 1971 she graduated from the philology faculty of the local state university. She has worked as a village teacher and as a journalist at...
10.08.2016 - 17:26

“What thrills me in art is freedom”

An exhibit of artist Yurii Shapoval has opened at Poltava’s Venerable Paisius Wieliczkowski Spiritual and Cultural Center. The artist’s works are kept at museums and private collections...
10.08.2016 - 17:24

ShevChina

Last week a symbolical and quite extraordinary event took place in Kaniv, which is sometimes called a Mecca of the Ukrainian people. An exhibit “Unfading Fame. In honor of Taras Shevchenko...
10.08.2016 - 17:18

Bright triviality

The museum, which possesses the largest collection of tapestries by this outstanding Ukrainian artist (more than a hundred items), exhibits 15 monumental works to honor the memory of Liudmyla Zhohol...