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17.11.2014 - 17:32

On November 18 Den awards a prize to the best political journalist for the sixth time

The newspaper Den awards the James Mace Prize for Civic Attitude in Political Journalism annually on the Holodomor anniversary memorial day. The prize is conferred on the authors of new political...
13.09.2012 - 00:00

Perpetuated conformism, or Head in a muddle

It is typical for the local authorities in Ukraine to shed crocodile tears over the deplorable state of the public budget. As soon as it comes to repairing roofs, elevators, pavements, or leaking...
13.09.2012 - 00:00

Discussion in ruins

On September 12 the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv held the forum “Ukraine’s Non-Bloc Policy in the European Context,” organized by the Institute of...
11.09.2012 - 00:00

Distraction of reasoning produces monsters

A lot has been said (including The Day’s articles) about legal insignificance of the Law “On Principles of State Language Policy,” thus, there is no reason to repeat it all really. The most important...
11.09.2012 - 00:00

“Patriotic” fanfares near Borodino

The 1812 Patriotic War (as it is usually referred to in official Russian historiography) is, for some reason, on the fringes of the Ukrainian mass media, whereas all the Russian media have been...
11.09.2012 - 00:00

It needs painstaking work, not resolutions, to mark Great Terror anniversaries

The 75th anniversary of the Great Terror is coming up. Formally, the impulse was given by the VKP (b) plenum held on February 23 to March 3, 1937. Joseph Stalin addressed the plenum with the report...
12.06.2012 - 00:00

Vitali KLITSCHKO: “There will be a different generation of politicians in parliament”

On June 6 Vitali Klitschko received the James A. Farley Award for Honesty and Integrity in Boxing in the US. We had spoken shortly before that. “This is an honorary prize from American...
12.06.2012 - 00:00

Totalitarianism through human destinies: French academics study the tragic experience of Eastern European nations

Millions of the lives ruined by tyrannical regimes should in no way remain in the memory of descendants as mere “statistics.” Otherwise, there will be a danger of the rebirth of the...
26.04.2012 - 00:00

Parties name their key figures in the election headquarters

Simultaneously, on the same day the nation got to know who will be now in charge of the major political forces’ election campaigns in the upcoming election. There has been no sensation. Andrii...
26.04.2012 - 00:00

Three reasons behind Opposition’s alliance

Ukraine’s strongest Opposition forces, Yatseniuk’s Front zmin (Front for Change) and Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna (Fatherland), have made an alliance, as evidenced by their leaders’ statements,...
03.04.2012 - 00:00

One meeting and two lessons

The Kyiv-based International Institute of Management (MIM-Kyiv), which has decidedly taken one of the topmost places in the hierarchy of business education in Europe, is also becoming a high-level...
27.03.2012 - 00:00

At the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on January 30, 1992, the Chairman of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Yevhen Marchuk presented a draft law

Dear Speaker, and dear members of parliament! On September 20, 1991, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a resolution on the creating of the National Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). It was...
27.03.2012 - 00:00

The Security Service of Ukraine is 20 years old

When Ukraine restored independence, one of the urgent measures to protect its statehood was establishment of its own intelligence agency. As time went by, this country became in need of a high-...
22.03.2012 - 00:00

“To be partners, not vassals”

Recently the Sociological Service “Rating” published a report on the research called “The Dynamics of Ideological Markers,” which was conducted from February 10 through 24. UKRINFORM reported that...
22.03.2012 - 00:00

Students protest in Horlivka

On March 19, students of the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages held a meeting for students’ rights. On March 14, more than 350 students of the Horlivka Institute of Foreign...

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