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

№72, (2012)

22.11.2012 - 00:00

Non-memoir presentation of Alone with Myself

These days, a bookstore Moskva on Vozdvizhenka Street in Moscow hosted a meeting with the first USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev. The event was organized to present his book Alone with Myself. The...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

“We have always been a rock band open to experimenting!”

Musicians came to Ukraine in their world tour in support of their new studio album Not Your Kind of People. In addition to songs from the new album, Garbage played their immortal hits: “I...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

Master of instant insight

Famous Kyiv-based painter Nina Bondarenko is an amazing master of instant insight and irrepressible impulse. She painted magic flowers in space of landscapes filled with color in one breath with...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

Oshibana Ukrainian style

Six hundred years ago in Japan samurai learned to “draw” pictures with petals. This art was called oshibana and gradually spread throughout the world. Plants from the Crimea, the...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

A universal company

The celebrations lasted two days. The hosts were receiving greetings from the bosses of the Ministry of Culture, National Union of Theater Workers of Ukraine, theaters from Kyiv, Lviv, Luhansk, and...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

Roman YUSYPEI: “Accordion player is a plain straightforward man who breaks the musical peace”

Recent visit of the outstanding composer Sofia Gubaidulina to Ukraine became the central event in the cultural life of the country. The initiator and organizer of the visit and also the performer...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

“There is a potbelly stove in every house, but it would be better to have more blankets”

A three-year-old girl is playing with a hammer outdoors, barely holding it in her little hand. It is mid-November, but she is wearing a light summer dress – here, at the Gypsy camp in a Kyiv...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

Wondrous travels

They say that the joy of knowledge is in being surprised by something, rather than by remembering something. Quite a few people deviate from the textbook tourist itineraries and places of interest...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

The Feather Headdress of Ancient Mexico: Common heritage, shared responsibility

Certain cultural goods possess value that transcends political and cultural borders. They are a testament of past generations’ accomplishments and of mankind’s ability to infuse an object with a...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

The complexity of choosing the lesser of two evils

After the Orange Revolution’s fiasco and its leadership’s defeat during the next elections, probably the most topical issue on Ukraine’s political agenda was choosing the...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

Man and System: new relations

Many lawyers consider the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to be the second most important legal document of our country after the Constitution. The coordinating meeting of the heads of law-...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

From Maoism to technocracy

Recently the fifth generation of politicians came to power in China since Mao Zedong founded the republic in 1949, with Xi Jinping replacing Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Communist Party of...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

Too rich to care?

On December 13, a group of researchers from the Kryvy Rih Botanic Garden and Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Problems of Nature Management and Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences might become...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

Andrii HONCHARUK: “Chinese nomenklatura should not be compared to that of the Soviet Union”

Are the new seven, headed by Xi Jinping, able to cope with the challenges facing the party and the world’s second superpower? In what way can the arrival of the new team affect relations between...
22.11.2012 - 00:00

“Human” security through the eyes of young people

First Youth Security Forum titled “Human Security in International Relations: Foreign Policy for People” will open in Kyiv on November 23. The Forum will bring together 50 young...

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