Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№6, (2011)

03.02.2011 - 00:00

“Yin” unites fashion and art

Four famous Ukrainian designers have recently presented fragments of their art collections in the country’s capital. The fashion show was timed to the opening of the “YIN” exhibition in the M17...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

Eduard MYTNYTSKY: The “superstructure” is changing, whereas the fundamentals of people’s lives remain immutable

At the end of last year the artistic head and founder of the Left Bank’s Theater of Drama and Comedy produced the Three Sisters based on Anton Chekhov’s work. The production was unique...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

No to conceptual Russification!

Ukraine’s intelligentsia is outraged by the initiatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, and the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports, laid down in the draft “Concept of...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

Innovations for food

The 41st International Economic Forum has concluded in Davos, where Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanuko­vych persuaded foreign investors to “switch on” Ukraine. As a result, on...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

“The volcano awoke,” <br>“The volcano wasn’t dormant”

On January 31 the Kyiv Ivan Franko Theater hosted many prominent Ukrainians: writers, musicians, film directors, art critics and intellectuals. These were people we should see more of, and who know...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

Reforms expected to produce effect

We must give the current Ukrainian leadership their due: the pace of the ongoing reforms is really impressive. When President Viktor Yanukovych visited Davos later last week, he did not mince words...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

“Pulse of democracy,” or How the third sector can speed up Ukraine’s EU membership

According to Oleh Rybachuk, director of the Center UA non-governmental organization (NGO), next summer the EU will discuss a new program of supporting the third sector in Ukraine. In particular, the...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

EVENT

  Zaporizhian Maria Pomazan sets record at World Athletics Championship for Disabled  At the World Athletics Championship for Disabled in New Zealand a native of Zaporizhia Maria...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

China’s democratic baby steps

WASHINGTON, DC – During the state visit to the United States of Chinese President Hu Jintao, President Barack Obama pressed Hu on human rights. He probably should have asked more about...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

Yekaterinburg unveils monument to Russia’s first president

An extraordinary event happened on February 1 in Yekaterinburg — for the first time in modern Russian history a monument was erected to a contemporary statesman, Boris Yeltsin, on the 80th...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

A “refined intellectual”

Recently, there was the 120th birth anniversary of Pavlo Tychyna — outstanding poet, academic, musician, and artist, and Soviet-era official — his great-granddaughter Tetiana SOSNOV...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

Carried away…

MPs were supposed to vote on the amendments to the Constitution on February 3, but the elated mood which followed the end of the holiday period has sped things up. On the very first day of the 7th...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

This day in history

1921: The Council of the Republic, the then UNR’s supreme authority, starts functioning in Tarnow (Poland), only to cease to exist in August. 1929: The first Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists ends...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

Letters to Ukraine – 1

Via technology? Economic growth? I’ve a better gauge: manners. I don’t mean etiquette, that training of human monkeys for polite society. Manners aren’t about knowing which...
03.02.2011 - 00:00

Pressing out

Let us give a short review of the events that have been shaking the biggest higher educational establishment in Ukraine’s east for half a year already. On July 29 Minister of Education Dmytro...

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