№5, (2012)
31.01.2012 - 00:00
“The road to overcoming the consequences of totalitarianism is in the cultural field”
The Donbas Vasyl Stus Historical and Literary Museum has been functioning in Horlivka for 15 years now. It exhibits photocopies of the poet’s letters from the place of exile, his notes, photo...
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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...
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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...
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This day in history
1882: The fist issue of the technical journal Inzhener comes out in Kyiv (it was published until 1918, when the editorial office moved to Moscow). 1918: The Central Rada of Ukraine passes the Land...
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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 (!)...
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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...
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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
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
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....
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“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
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...
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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...
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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...
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Europe began from unions of cities
It is obvious that the image of Ukraine has been distorted during the last century. The roots of many cities, towns, and villages were purged, denied, torn out of the memories, and a convenient myth...