№51, (2012)
11.09.2012 - 00:00
It needs painstaking work, not resolutions, to mark Great Terror anniversaries
The 75th anniversary of the Great Terror is coming up. Formally, the impulse was given by the VKP (b) plenum held on February 23 to March 3, 1937. Joseph Stalin addressed the plenum with the report...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1864: Date of birth of Pavlo Hrabovsky, Ukrainian lyric poet, essayist, translator, a brilliant representative of the Ukrainian intelligentsia. 1918: The Soviet of People’s Commissars adopts a decree...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
Prince Harry returns to Afghanistan. Taliban threaten to kill him
Radical Taliban movement threatened to kill British Prince Harry, who has just arrived in Afghanistan to serve as a helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force, reportedly by AFP. “We will do our...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
Jazz Breeze
Regulars of Voloshynska Kimmeria ten years ago when the festival of modern ethnic and jazz music first started did not quite believe that “Jazz Koktebel” would survive in the Crimean...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
European Commission vs. Gazprom
Last week was disastrous for the Gazprom joint-stock company. The Russian monopolist lost over 2 billion dollars in capitalization, as its shares showed a 2-percent drop in price. The Russian press...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine is on the rise
The end of the previous week brought for Ukraine things we need so much to assert ourselves: the victories of Paralympians in London, positive emotions, the feeling of triumph after Vitalii...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
European Missile Defense: an impetus from Poland
European Missile Defense (EMD) appears to have got its second wind. Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski recently made a statement about amendments to the law on the modernization of the armed...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
Three evenings
The shows will be held in the Les Kurbas National Center of Theater Art, and a year after the broad program “Polish Theater in Kyiv,” the International Festival “Theater...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
“Only the tools change. The goal of the journalism, to be the pylon of demoсracy, remains the same”
On Wednesday, September 5, the 64th World Newspaper Congress and 19th World Editors Forum ended in Kyiv. On the eve of the event some were against holding them in Kyiv, considering them an...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
Ukrainian Silicon Valley to start from small business
Every year a competition of startup projects from around the world Seedcamp takes place in the capital of Great Britain. The victory in the competition brings recognition and support of the best...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
Canoe trip from Kyiv to Svitlovodsk
A total of 364 miles in 20 days, such are temporal and spatial dimensions of the socio-ecological research trip called “Robinson Dnipro Expedition.” Robinson is the name of the canoe Khriienko is...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
The IMF mission has finished its work
The technical mission of the European department of the International Monetary Fund finished its work in Ukraine. The press office of the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance informed that the government of...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
“A chance not to miss the wise predecessors”
Ukraine has entered the new educational and book season with even more lamentable publishing statistics than in the previous years: one book per capita a year. According to the Ukrainian...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
Peeping deep inside
An eco-friendly exhibit has been launched in Donetsk’s municipal gallery Art-Donbas. It showcases about 300 photos made by Ukrainian and Russian photographers from 15 seas of the world,...
11.09.2012 - 00:00
Will Ukraine celebrate UPA’s 70th anniversary?
A draft resolution on events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was registered with the Verkhovna Rada several days ago, reads the VR website. The author of the...