№5, (2010)
02.02.2010 - 00:00
New rules of the old “game”
The European Commission doesn’t rule out that already this year the Energy Charter Treaty can be amended with Russia’s wishes taken into account. The head of the European Commission representation in...
02.02.2010 - 00:00
This day in history
1918: The Soviet Russia’s Council of People’s Commissars passes a resolution to separate the church from the state and the school from the church. 1943: Soviet troops finally defeat the Nazi German...
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All residents of the village Ispas were named Righteous among the Nations
In 1991, when Ukraine just gained independence, President Leonid Kravchuk came to Babyn Yar to say words of grief and compassion and apologized before Jews on behalf of the entire Ukrainian people...
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Environmentalists publish two books about Ukraine’s nature preserves
Two books, entitled The Nature Preserve Fund of Ukraine and An Ecological Atlas of Ukraine, were published by the Center for Ecological Education and Information Publishing House on the order of the...
02.02.2010 - 00:00
Ostroh club: Questions and answers
Every “decent” presidential candidate considered it necessary to pay a visit to Ostroh Academy on the eve of elections. Although none had actually done anything to help develop this Eastern Europe...
02.02.2010 - 00:00
The art of being the best
A born leader is easy to spot even as a child: they are always in the limelight and seem to get more and more confident with each passing day. However, even if a child lacks inborn leadership skills...
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“Our rescuers were absolutely unselfish”
This year marks 66 years since Kirovohrad was liberated from Nazi occupants. In spite of the distance in time, the memories of the cruel war keep haunting its participants and eyewitnesses. Among...
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Like a real family
Snowy calmness reigns in the children’s SOS village in Brovary. Here, on a separate piece of land, far from the central streets of the city, there are 13 identical two-storied houses. The paths...
02.02.2010 - 00:00
Ukrainian Baroque in Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s works
Continued from previous issue
Hrushevsky wrote the last volume in difficult social and historical conditions, when any attempt to determine the national dominants in literary progress was...
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EVENT
Special gear for Euro-2012German presents for Ukrainian policeOn January 27, Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth, Ambassador of Germany to Ukraine, handed German police helmets to Oleksandr Savchenko, deputy...
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Lessons of Davos
On Jan. 31, the 40th Global Economic Forum closed in Davos after raising a number of burning questions before the mankind. What should the economy look like after the crisis? How can one feed the...
02.02.2010 - 00:00
“Golden Reserve”
“ANNOUNCEMENT” Last Tuesday, after the Central Electoral Commission had announced The Day before the official results of the first round and set the date of the runoff election, the election campaign...
02.02.2010 - 00:00
Another attack
I have met with a number of foreign scholars this year who specialize in Ukraine's Holodomor. We debated the issue, and the standpoint of those who refused to accept the definition of the Holodomor...
02.02.2010 - 00:00
The freedom of being European
What has this country spent its efforts on in the five years after the Maidan? Has our society acquired a new quality (for, by all accounts, we took to the streets in 2004 just for the sake of...
02.02.2010 - 00:00
Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha nominated for Russian Prize
The ethno group DakhaBrakha from Kyiv was short-listed for the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize in modern art, which is presented in Saint Petersburg. The band was nominated for the grand prix in pop-mechanic...