№5, (2008)
12.02.2008 - 00:00
Vassily Grossman and “the devils”
It is a paradox that people in contemporary Ukraine, where historians, and, in the past few years, the national leadership, have been taking great pains to tell the truth about the 1932-33 Holodomor...
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The state must support market forces
The unanimous approval by the General Council of World Trade Organization (WTO) of the protocol on Ukraine’s membership is a crucial step towards the logical conclusion of the process of the...
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The alchemy of simplicity
Alchemy of Simplicity is the title of an art show that just opened at the Griffon Gallery. On display are paintings by the Zhytomyr-based artist Yurii Kamyshny, which co-exist organically with the...
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What are Ukraine’s interests in the Antarctic?
The Antarctic is the planet’s only continent that does not belong to anyone. According to the Antarctic Treaty System, nationals of all countries are entitled to set foot on the shores of this land...
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No future without remembering
No society can move ahead without a full realization of what happened to it 20, 50, 70, and 100 years ago or without understanding what tragedies, sacrifices, and horrific sweeping changes its...
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External testing system needs improvements
The system of external independent testing has been implemented in Ukraine since 2001. Only 4,000 graduates and several institutions of higher education in our country have taken part in the first...
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The price of beauty: murder
A couple of weeks ago Kyiv’s animal rights activists staged a rally in front of the Sports Palace under the slogan “Animals Don’t Wear Others’ Furs, or Manka’s Tears.” Their action was another...
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This week in history
Feb. 12 1921: The Standing Council on the Struggle against Banditry is formed under the Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 1960: Ukraine’s first experimental nuclear reactor becomes...
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Ukraine needs a new intellectual stratum
During a recent roundtable dedicated to a discourse on sociology Yevhen Holovakha, deputy director of the Institute of Sociology at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU), The Day’s...
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The geopolitical vector and language
Two weeks ago one of Ukraine’s top universities hosted a high- profile academic gathering to summarize the results of last year’s research. One of the participants of Science Days was the Kyiv...
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Time witnesses
On Feb. 4, The Day’s photography show opened at the Rivne Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater. Local photographers Anatolii Mizerny, Oleksandr Kharvat, and Anatolii Pokhyliuk — past...
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Security Service of Ukraine reveals documents that unmask Soviet myths about the OUN
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has uncovered documents that indicate that the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was not implicated in anti-Jewish actions in Lviv in July 1941....
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Ukraine getting a pure economic effect from its cooperation with NATO
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer believes that the Bucharest Summit will be a wonderful occasion to re-consider relations between Ukraine and the Alliance. He said this in Vilnius after...
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Kerch’s “fuel oil mine”
SIMFEROPOL — The Crimean government is concerned about the 55,000 tons of fuel oil mixed with sand and algae in the seaport of Kerch, which were collected following the shipwreck of Russian tankers...
12.02.2008 - 00:00
A varied circle of interests
With her famous last name, Olha Bohomolets could not help becoming a doctor. She is an excellent physician, and her achievements are known far beyond the borders of our country. Owning her own clinic...