№48, (2010)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Bank loans for individuals gradually resume
Experts concluded that Ukrainians take up more new loans than they return their previous ones. The size of the loan portfolio for individuals in hryvnias has been growing for two months in a row, and...
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Kovpak instead of Shukhevych
The Ministry of Education and Science has modified the 5th grade school class in Ukrainian history, even though it was already modified just a year ago. Following the ministry’s new recommendations,...
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Unofficial colors and images
The Ukrainian underground requires understanding and interpretation. The complexity and diversity of the styles used by painters in this trend of contemporary art, and even the differences in the...
16.09.2010 - 00:00
Potatoes following buckwheat?
The wave of “buckwheat fever” threatens to turn into a “potato boom.” The price for potatoes is rising almost every day: over the last week the wholesale price grew by 40 percent. In addition,...
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EVENT
Ukraine and the EU set a date for the next summitThe EU-Ukraine summit will be held in Brussels on November 22. The date was announced by Herman Van Rompuy, president of European Council, after a...
16.09.2010 - 00:00
Analyze mistakes to try something new
Our society has become subdued. Our intelligentsia is limiting itself to voicing its dissatisfaction with what is happening in the public and political spheres in the form of online articles. Our...
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...