№53, (2011)
06.10.2011 - 00:00
An awakening giant?
The second Eastern Partnership summit meeting, held at the end of last week in Warsaw, revealed grave difference of values between the European Union and the countries involved in this Poland-...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
Who will protect Ukrainian cops?
Ukraine’s militsia [militia, another Soviet hangover, considering that the Rus-sian Federation has formally adopted the notion of police. — Ed.] proves increasingly apt at dispersing...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
Lviv Tablature calls artists together
The 9th festival of this kind is starting on October 17 and is dedicated to the Lviv Lute Tablature, one of the biggest and the most interesting collections of this type in the world. The Lviv Lute...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
Ukrainians are stashing away 70 billion dollars
Ukrainians are keeping almost 70 billion dollars outside the banking system, Olena Shcherbakova, Director of the National Bank of Ukraine’s Monetary Policy Department, says. In other words, the...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
This day in history
1648: Cossack-peasant troops led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky besiege Kyiv. 1884: Fourteen Narodnaya Volya activists are under trial in St. Petersburg. 1918: Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky of Ukraine opens Kyiv...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
Letters to Ukraine – 8
Why are we obsessed with lead singers? In soccer, strikers capture more column inches than defenders. We heap fame upon actors and comedians whose writers receive scant recognition. We’re...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
Forgive me, my dear animal friend
The action of sorrow “Forgive Me, My Dear Animal Friend” for the second time took place on Octo-ber 4 — the World Animal Day in major Ukrainian cities: Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv,...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
The single ticket for all urban transport will be introduced in Cherkasy
The deputies of Cherkasy Municipal Council have adopted the conception of the urban transport development. According to city mayor Serhii Odarych, the development of the electric transport is the...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
Strike against “extortionate policies”
Hundreds of the Association of Farmers and Private Landowners of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Agrarian Union members came to the walls of the parliament building to express their protest against the...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
Best journalism award
Do you want to win the Grand Prix worth 10,000 zlotys (2,400 euros) or either of €1,200-euro prizes, along with a trip to Poland? If you do, take part in a contest for the best report from...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
The average salary in Zaporizhia is decreasing
It is well-known that the statistics know not only how to show the inflation growth of 0.01 percent when the price of cabbage falls by 20 kopeks and the price of meat grows by 10 hryvnias. Sometimes...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
Putin’s new political project
The Russian regime will not part with the idea of being at least to a degree in charge of the former Soviet republics. The attempts to create a Eurasian Economic Union are yet another proof to the...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
“...So we were able to love Ukraine as much as Kobzar did”
The little town of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytsky is famous for its 35 museums. One of the most visited ones is the Museum of Taras Shevchenko’s Testament. It got this name on April 18, 2008, and...
06.10.2011 - 00:00
Does Patriarch Kirill behave as if Ukraine does not have Sabodan?
CHERNIVTSI – Bukovyna started preparing for the visit of the Russian patriarch a month before its visit with the energy worthy of a better cause. The traffic was paralyzed in one of the main...