№71, (2010)
07.12.2010 - 00:00
Smart exports for Ukraine
According to the National Export Development Strategy, worked out by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, the country’s key exporting sectors are steel, agriculture, machine-building, and chemistry....
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On the subtleties of French performance
The pianist Adam LALOUM was the youngest participant of the festival. This virtuoso was born in 1987. As a student he won many awards: the Maurice Ravel Prize, a grant from the Fondation de France,...
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Averse pipeline extends to the West
Poland plans to increase its energy security by means of intensifying cooperation with Ukraine. Bogdan Borusewicz, the marshal of the Polish Senate (upper chamber of the parliament) announced this...
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Dniprogas case: round two
Dnipropetrovsk — The case of the gas explosion in Dnipropetrovsk in 2007, in which a high-rise residential building on Mandrykivska St. 127 was destroyed and 23 people, including 13 children perished...
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What should we do with decaying nuclear power plants?
The exploitation period of 12 out of 15 Ukrainian nuclear power plant units will soon come to an end. Experts at the National Ecological Center of Ukraine are convinced that extending the lifetimes...
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Grand defile of virtuoso musicians
Virtuosi of the Planet 2010 comprises musicians with interesting destinies and well-conceived images: the winner of international competitions, button accordion player Oleksandr Khrustkevych (...
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“Why does our television limit my rights?”
The, management of the Ukrainian TV channels is becoming an increasingly popular target, along with politicians, for civic initiatives and protests. For example, last week, due to multiple...
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Wooden churches must be saved
There are approximately 2,000 wooden churches in Ukraine. They are unique monuments of national architecture, most of which have no analogues anywhere in the world. Eight of them are nominated for...
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Donetsk historians seek truth
Donetsk – On the last day of fall Donetsk saw a presentation of the book The Holodomor of 1932 -1933 in Ukraine According to the Documents of the Branch State Archives of the Security Service...
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Bungled Berlin mission
The friendly relations between Germany and the Soviet Union after the partition of Poland didn’t last long. The honeymoon following the two dictators’ political wedding ended in 1940....
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One-dimensional perception
BERLIN — “Klitschko brothers, Chornobyl, a ‘granary’ during the Soviet Union times, and maybe also the Crimea.” In the opinion of Niko Lange, the head of the Kyiv...
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Making people think
A day of Den has been held for the fifth time at the Volyn Lesia Ukrainka National University. However, its cultural and intellectual impresa exceeded the limits of one educational establishment only...
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Underground kamikazes
Ukraine’s coal industry has once again suffered a terrible accident. This regular occurrence is “distinguished” by one feature — the number of victims since the beginning of this year closely...
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Investors are waiting for safeguards
The Black Sea Economic Forum, dedicated to the analysis of investment potentialities of the Black Sea region, has come to an end in Yalta. For two days almost 250 participants from Azerbaijan,...
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When football means more than just football
On November 27, when the Ukrainian nation honored the Holodomor victims’ memory, Anatolii Tymoshchuk played the Bayern Munich-Eintracht Frankfurt match with a mourning ribbon. With this...