№8, (2013)
07.02.2013 - 10:58
Letters to Ukraine – 24
What’s the biggest elephant in the room? I mean, the one thing looming over humanity that we barely discuss? Is it war? Poverty? The prevalence of cancer? Think again. Think computers, nappies...
07.02.2013 - 10:52
Purchase instead of producing
Donor blood processing center of the Kyiv City Blood Center will be closed on February 16, 2013. This was reported by Oleksii Davydenko, deputy of the UDAR Party faction in the Kyiv City Council,...
07.02.2013 - 10:51
Ukrainian basketball player – the best in Europe
Alina Yahupova, player of the women’s national basketball team of Ukraine, was named the best young athlete in this sport in Europe.Official website of the federation reported the results of...
07.02.2013 - 10:50
Treating animals humanely
Members of the city’s School No. 23 Tourism and Excursions Society come to the woods every winter bringing generous gifts for their inhabitants. At first, the kids brought candies, bananas and...
07.02.2013 - 10:49
About EU, Customs Union, and Transnistria
First press conference of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Kozhara, held on February 5, demonstrated that the new chief of the office on Mykhailivska Square feels at ease on the post of...
07.02.2013 - 10:47
Ambassador Roundtable at Woodrow Wilson Center
During the Ambassador Roundtable “Reflections and Recommendations on US-Ukrainian Relations” at the Woodrow Wilson Center, ex-US envoys to Ukraine William Miller, Steven Pifer, and John...
07.02.2013 - 10:44
A crack in the “Eurasian project”
Tension has developed between Russia and Kazakhstan. The two countries are unable to make a deal on the use of Baikonur Cosmodrome (space launch complex) for launching Russian satellites. Yet Russia...
07.02.2013 - 10:42
Tossing up a pancake also requires skill
Salisbury cathedral choristers practice tossing up pancakes.By doing so, children learn how to really celebrate SHROVE TUESDAY. This british feast, to be marked next week, signifies the beginning of...
07.02.2013 - 10:33
Parliament must be unblocked
February 5, 2013, a regular session of the Verkhovna Rada was adjourned after Opposition members seized the rostrum, after failing to come to terms with the ruling party over the personal vote...
07.02.2013 - 10:30
“Trade wars” as a test for Ukraine’s political independence
The “meat war” between Russia and the United States looks like an act of political retribution, and the Kremlin wants to drag Ukraine into it. These are the findings that experts made...
07.02.2013 - 10:21
Space as a key to the modern society
Last week, the author of this article was lucky enough to be the only Ukrainian journalist who was invited by the Israeli foreign ministry for the Eighth Annual International Ilan Ramon Space...
06.02.2013 - 18:23
Main verdict still ahead
The news about the sentencing of the former general Oleksii Pukach for life imprisonment for the crime of beating journalist Oleksii Podolsky and murder of Heorhii Gongadze stirred up the society and...
06.02.2013 - 18:15
What do Hyundai trains suffer from?
It is not so easy to get into the depot where Ukrainian High-Speed Rail Company (UHSRC) trains are serviced and repaired. The 9.8-ha complex is protected with a tall barbed-wire ferroconcrete fence...
06.02.2013 - 18:12
Punitive psychiatry in the USSR
A new book by Dutch political scientist, human rights champion, political essayist Robert Van Voren (pseudonym; real name Johannes Baks), On Dissidents and Madness: From The Soviet Union of Leonid...
06.02.2013 - 17:57
Political dimension of adoption
Orphans and children deprived of parental care are now the hub of ideological disputes. Oleh Tiahnybok, leader of Svoboda (Freedom) Party, emphasized in an interview to mass media that his party is...