№5, (2012)
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Shigeki Hakamada: Japan has proved that it can be rich without having resources
For nine days I took part in a press tour organized by the Foreign Press Center, Japan, on the initiative of the Japanese government (FPCJ is an image-making organization that cooperates with...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Should the “sweetlands” be divided up?
The newspaper Holos Ukrainy published land market bill on January 25 at the direction of Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, the bill having passed its first reading in Verkhovna Rada. It seems...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Things get going?
President Yanukovych’s idea to set up a Constitutional Assembly seemed to have “sunk into oblivion.” In any case, nobody has heard about any steps in this direction since the...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Artistic chaos
Exhibition “Anniversary” is open in the Institute of Contemporary Art, Ukraine’s NAA. The exhibition is dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the foundation of this art and research institution....
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Paralympians to set new records
Ukrainian winter sports championship for athletes with locomotive disabilities and the visually impaired will last until February 1 at the Yavoriv...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Hidden final review
In late January the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade held, with some delay, the final (for 2011) board meeting. Opening the meeting the First Deputy Minister Vadym Kopylov suggested congra...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
The Arab Spring’s balance sheet
Last year’s events in Egypt and Tunisia drew the curtain on a tottering old order and delivered much of the Arab world into a long-awaited new era. But what that new era will look like remains very...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Eden for a cat
The artist uses a combined technique: he takes acrylic paints as a basis and draws with oil paints on top of it. “It is very important for me to get the effect of certain glow from my paintings....
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Will the young generation learn from the heroes of Kruty?
Real, truthful, not fictitious, sickly sweet independence is always obtained through struggle. There is no other way: the living history is quite far from sentiments and proves that truly in-depth...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Merkel, Davos, and Yanukovych
On January 27 in Davos during the 8th Ukrainian lunch-conference “Options for the Future” traditionally organized by the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
No chance for degradation!
Larysa Ivshyna met Ostroh Academy students on the days when the Ukrainians celebrate Sobornist (Unity) Day. It is a good and time-tested tradition. The newspaper and the academy have not...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Wladimir KLITSCHKO: “Social development of the country is also struggle”
Let us begin with topmost achievements. Among the sport facilities renovated at the Klitschko Brothers Foundation’s expense is a Severodonetsk sport school that had not been repaired for 40 (!)...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
“Sign of hope” for Ukraine
A month ago Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych saw a “sign of hope” in the extraordinary events of the year in the Arab world and declared it during the traditional annual meeting with the...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine and Russia – 20 years without empire: historical lessons
About two decades have already passed since the seemingly eternal “unbreakable Union” collapsed and became part of sometimes bloody, terrible, internally contradictory, and cruel...