№59, (2010)
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Contradictions of imperial thinking
Russia and the West are looking for ways to intensify cooperation in the security sphere. That is how Western periodicals commented on the decision of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to...
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“One can shoot movies here”
During his last visit to the editorial office of The Day director and documentary filmmaker Vasyl Viter said that his students — sophomores of the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University had...
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Swan’s Lake performance: Ukrainian-Belarusian version
Kyivan artists and their Belarusian colleagues performed the ballet Swan’s Lake on stage of Ukraine’s National Opera House within the framework of the Belarusian Days of Culture. The...
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Response of the first president
The ex-minister of internal affairs, ex-companion of Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, and “field commander” of the Maidan Yurii Lutsenko recently made an unexpected statement. As...
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Stop hanging over us!
Last days saw, so to speak, a “sign of de-Stalinization.” What prompted some writers to focus on this was an important event in Russia’s public life — a statement by Mikhail...
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EVENT
QR code in Lviv
This code [a matrix barcode, readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones; it consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background;...
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Someday Italians will gladly wear Ukrainian-made clothes
The Italian National Chamber of Fashion was founded in 1958. The Ukrainian agenda was very distant from the sphere of aesthetics until well into Ukrainian independence, when the first Fashion Week...
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Investors opt for biogas and elephant grass
Energy efficiency and alternative energy are now the key point in almost all governmental declarations and programs of national economic development. It is promised that this sector, now of top...
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Friends and foes...
“Being the president, it is my first election and there is no other person who would be more interested in holding the elections in a democratic and fair manner,” Viktor Yanukovych said about a month...
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Master of portrait and landscape painting
This year we celebrate the centenary of the birth of the renowned Ukrainian artist, the master of portrait and landscape painting Serhii Hryhoriev. The artist’s name is primarily associated...
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Putin’s revenge?
The intrigue surrounding the appointment of Luzhkov’s successor, which was almost obscenely long, is over. The selection of Moscow’s new mayor was carried out in accordance with the Byzantine...
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This day in history
1920: The Soviet/Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom) of the RSFSR adopts a decree instituting the “Ukrainian Labor Army.” 1920: The Red [Soviet] Ukrainian Cossack Cavalry Corps is established...
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Avant-garde and underground
The auction’s oldest work was Veniamin Babadzhan’s self-portrait dated 1913. This is the only known portrait of the talented artist, poet, and cultural expert, who was executed at the age of 26 on...
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“Nobody caught Danylyshyn”
Stepan Ukrainets, Bohdan Danylyshyn’s lawyer, claims that the ex-minister of economy himself decided to meet Ukrainian investigators and voluntarily came to the meeting in the Embassy of Ukraine in...
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The other Asia
WASHINGTON, DC – South Asia presents a depressing paradox. It is among the fastest growing regions in the world, but it is also home to the largest concentration of people living in...