№81, (2012)
25.12.2012 - 14:37
Affiche - December 26-January 1
December 26-January 1Curtain at 7 p.m. unless otherwise notedTheaterNational Opera of Ukraine(vul. Volodymyrska 50, tel. 279-1169)26 – Turandot, opera (in Italian)by Puccini27 – L’...
25.12.2012 - 12:07
Photometer from St. Nicholas
On St. Nicholas’s Day Mykolaiv held for the sixth time the charity evening under the patronage of Mayor Volodymyr Chaika. Every willing person could donate some money to save the lives of young...
25.12.2012 - 12:05
After 20-year break
Exhibition “Journey to the Past” was presented for the visitors of the museum. The exhibition tells the story of the village of Starunia in Bohorodchany raion, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast:...
25.12.2012 - 12:03
Gun control after Newtown
NEW YORK – The brutal murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, shakes us to the core as individuals and requires a response as citizens. The United States seems to reel...
25.12.2012 - 11:58
Constitution spelling discord
According to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, 71 of 95.5 percent of votes counted on Saturday, in the second and final round of polling, were for the draft Constitution of Egypt. The final, official...
25.12.2012 - 11:49
Blackmailing the intractable, or Is Putin right?
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin held a press conference, where he gave very frank answers to questions on the issue of cooperation with Ukraine.He said among other things that Ukraine had...
25.12.2012 - 11:43
PHOTO FACT
December 23, 2012. Iraqi boys pray for peace in Iraq and Syria during mass a day before Christmas eve at chaldean catholic church in Amman / REUTERS ...
25.12.2012 - 11:31
Valentyn NALYVAICHENKO: “The Custom’s Union for Ukraine means coming back to the USSR – but on worse terms”
This is Valentyn Nalyvaichenko’s first term as an MP, despite a rich experience of careers, mostly in the executive. What does he think of “job placements” in parliament? How will...
25.12.2012 - 11:26
Is the Rada ready to make an agreement between government and society?
The Constitutional Assembly has been criticized ever since it was created. Firstly, the very fact of initiation of an assembly that would create a new project of the Constitution under the auspices...
25.12.2012 - 11:22
Under surveillance
As the new Criminal Procedure Code has come into force, people are taking a closer look at the “devils” that lurk in its clauses. One of the most important things is permission for the...
25.12.2012 - 11:18
Heading for a financial cold war
If what our Communists and other left-wingers are saying is anything to go by, there is no greater enemy to humankind than the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the related World Bank (WB) that...
25.12.2012 - 11:17
Investor mood plummets
Ukraine’s investment attractiveness index has dropped by another 0.2 points, reaching just 2.12 out of a possible score of 5 over the fourth quarter of 2012. Let us recall that the index has...
25.12.2012 - 11:02
City that inspires
Depending on the season residents of Ukrainian cities have a number of reasons to be unsatisfied: unshoveled snow and disruption in work of public transport, sidewalks lined with cars, pits on the...
25.12.2012 - 11:00
Will Shakhtar beat Borussia?
The draw of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 was held on December 20 in Nyon, Switzerland. The only Ukrainian club that has reached this stage of Europe’s main soccer club competition...
25.12.2012 - 10:57
Ukrainian culture in Paris: Pinzel, DAKH and DakhaBrakha
When I was getting ready to go study in Paris in September I was looking forward to the exhibition of art works by Johann Georg Pinzel. For some reason I imagined it all like this: posters all over...