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

№48, (2010)

16.09.2010 - 00:00

Star Wars give birth to stars

New wave has reached Odesa. At least, this is how we interpret the major project undertaken by prominent Kyiv and Odesa trans-avant-gardists and devoted to the first anniversary of the city’s newest...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

This day in history

1651: Cossacks rise up in arms in Bila Tserkva against the truce agreement with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1899: The National Democratic Party is formed in western Ukraine. 1914: A total of...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Can Russia be great?

CAMBRIDGE – In the 1950s, many Americans feared that the Soviet Union would surpass the United States as the world’s leading power. The Soviet Union had the world’s largest territory, the third...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

On dry academicism and freedom

The forum has existed for three years, during which it has gained international recognition and attracted participants from a growing number of countries. It has acquired admirers who now come to...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Solar Bridge: Ukraine – America

Mirtala Pylypenko is a sculptor, a poet, a creator of a new synthetic genre that combines music, poetry and sculpture with stage acting and light effects. She is also the daughter of the famous...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Wedding Deluxe

The autumn is the traditional wedding season. However, aside happiness and joy, this event entails many troubles. The Wedding Deluxe Project was established by the Ukrainian Fashion Week, and took...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Alarming signs, shall we heed them?

Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who was elected President of Latvia twice (in 1999 and 2003), confessed a few years ago that she had been very impressed by the scope of the Orange Revolution, and even more...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Pyotr Stolypin

Russia’s contemporary ruling political class extols the administrative experience of Pyotr A. Stolypin (1862-1911) as a paragon of salutary, inescapable reforms, statesman’s wisdom and...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Ukraine launches a medical information system pilot project

The Lemma joint-stock insurance company and the Technological Research Institute of Transcription, Translation and Replication (NTI TTR) have announced the launch of a health care pilot project — the...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Merger and hostile takeover

Monday, September 13, marks Ukraine’s Gas and Oil Worker’s Day. Naftohaz Ukrainy (NU), long since written off many books as a dead cert bankrupt, will stage a ceremonious meeting and a gala show at...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Books speak only when everyone else is silent

Just before the week-end, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy opened James Mace’s memorial room. Mace was a renowned political scientist, researcher of the Ukrainian Holodomor, and Den’s...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Constitutional self-deception

Ukraine is rapidly following the footsteps of Asian or Latin American countries. Yanukovych’s constitutional reform envisages coming back to a superpresidential republic, stepping into a post-Soviet...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

The Ivano-Frankivsk region challenges an opportunity to be “Ukrainian Switzerland”

Ukraine’s Independence Day is solemnly celebrated not only in Ukraine, but in other countries too. Embassies and diplomatic missions of our country abroad hold official holiday receptions, though not...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

Language as a trump card

A significant trial took place in Mykolaiv. Anatolii Ilchenko, retired, was indicted on a charge of hooliganism because he had demanded that a teller at OshchadBank speak Ukrainian to him. The court...
16.09.2010 - 00:00

A meeting of Rembrandt and Van Gogh

Works by artists aged five to 30 were presented at an exhibition, which also included a performance. Young students from one of the art schools in Cherkasy recreated works by renowned artists and...

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