№64, (2011)
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This day in history
1918: The Directorate leads an uprising against Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky. 1919: The State Council of the Ukrainian National Republic, including members of the Directory and the government of the UNR...
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Radio, Juliet, and Carmen
Radio and Juliet. That sounds a bit weird but nevertheless it is a contemporary new ballet about Verona sweethearts, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Denys Matviienko,...
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Down the roads of Slavic culture
An outstanding personality (all the more so a genius who, unlike an “ordinary” talent, will see and hit the target which nobody else can see) can look even at the most compli...
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The capital will come online
The Kyiv City State Administration, which was represented by its deputy chairman Oleksandr Puzanov, and Microsoft Ukraine, represented by its director-general Dmytro Shymkiv, have signed a...
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More ambition and creativity
Teodor Baconschi, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs has recently made an official visit to Ukraine. He had meetings with Kostiantyn Hryshchenko, head of Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry and...
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About a colorful, happy world and little men with button eyes
History of arts knows thousands of examples when the one that feels the world in a special way and has a gift of reproducing it visually achieves success sooner than the one with formal education and...
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“Give a bit of yourself to help your fellow human…”
A charity ball was held at Lviv’s House of Scientists on November 11. Its objective was to raise funds for the purchase of kitchen equipment for the city’s Feeding Center for the...
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“The iceberg will roll over”
I met with Mr. Vydrin on November 7, the day of the “Great October Socialist Revolution,” as the communists call these 94-year-old events. On that day, they, as usual, walked down Kyiv...
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Dr. Marek BARTELIK: “Ukrainian artists are more apt in humor and sarcasm than foreign celebrities”
Dr. Marek Bartelik is an art critic, historian, and poet from New York. For already over 20 years he has been a regular reviewer of Artforum, by far the most influential magazine about actual...
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“The future of the printed press belongs to the innovations and uncommon thinking”
The famous patron and owner of London Evening Standard, I and Independent Yevgenii Lebedev speaks on the reasons why there is no culture of charity in Russia and the combination of the printed...
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Lost in translation or lack of context understanding
Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre Keir Giles is a leading British expert on Russia. The sphere of his interest is the issues of Russia’s defense and security, Moscow...
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Ukrainians often do a revamp instead of restoration
In his almost 40 years Rostyslav Voronko, who comes from Radyvyliv raion, Rivne oblast, has managed to restore three German churches of the 16th-18th centuries and win the hearts of German art-...
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Viacheslav KYRYLENKO: “The authorities want to go on denying themselves nothing, while the grassroots have to tighten their belts”
The For Ukraine party leader Viacheslav Kyrylenko came to give an interview to The Day right from the “barricades”: he had been helping Ivan Malkovych rebuff an illegal attack on his...
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Is government able to hear the voice of journalists?
Last week, Mustafa Nayyem in his blog on the site of Ukrainska Pravda posted an appeal to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka. It is about a violation of procedure when voting in...
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Looking for blood
Time and again, Ukrainian doctors and non-governmental organizations are raising the alarm: the nation experiences extreme lack of blood. “The situation with the donor blood is a critical one...