Nota bene
20.03.2012 - 00:00
The “aftertaste” of Russian elections
The latest Russian elections have led to various conclusions about Russia, its government and oppositions, and the condition of society. One of these conclusions is the emergence of what...
28.02.2012 - 00:00
Ukrainian situation and world context: diagnosis and remedies
The developments in this country make it always necessary to broach the subject of alternative as a phenomenon that has not yet been established in Ukraine on both institutional and social levels....
16.02.2012 - 00:00
Govorukhin said it and the Party of Regions finally heard him
No election campaign in Russia has missed the Ukrainian issue. On February 4, an anti-Orange pro-Putin rally was held parallel to the opposition’s one “For Fair Elections!” on...
16.02.2012 - 00:00
Trying to get rid of the victim complex
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared on February 14, during a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Kostiantyn Hryshchenko in Nizhny Novgorod: “We expect to make gas...
14.02.2012 - 00:00
Crimea’s last trump card
The Ukrainians will have soon to forget about traveling to trade-union-run health centers. The state is going to privatize and put them up for a big international auction. The ostensible reason is...
14.02.2012 - 00:00
Competition or pillage?
The Council Cabinet of Ukraine approved the list of coal mines that can be given on concession. The list is in the decree No.71 of January 11, 2012 placed on the government’s official website. It...
09.02.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine and Russia – 20 years without empire: historical lessons
(Continuation; for beginning see the previous issues)Yu.A.: “This is a very sore point. The distorted Russian society emerges from three rather different angles. A part of the distortion has its...
09.02.2012 - 00:00
Borys TARASIUK: Washington is revising its policy in regard to Ukraine
Recent events make one wonder about the relations between Ukraine and the United States, about how Washington sees the situation in this country.
Last week, Yevhenia Tymo...
07.02.2012 - 00:00
Operation “Neutralization”
The notorious Gongadze case is a never-ending torment for the family and friends. What is it for the country? For the country for many years it has been a sort of litmus paper which has...
07.02.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine and Russia – 20 years without empire: historical lessons
(Continuation; for beginning see the previous issues)
We published in the previous issues a wide-scale polylogue among Yurii Afanasiev, Yurii Shcherbak, Oxana Pachlovska, Myroslav Popovych,...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Ukrainian society and the Holocaust
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops seized the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland where over 1.5 million Jews had been killed during the war. Since then this date has been observed as...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine and Russia – 20 years without empire: historical lessons
(Continued from the previous issue)UKRAINE’S POLITICAL MAP WAS BEING FORMED IN THE CONDITIONS OF DEPENDENCE L.I.: “But the problem also is that Ukrainian society is very slow to offer a qualitative...
02.02.2012 - 00:00
Every Ukrainian politician should know it!
While the 300th anniversary of Pereiaslavska Rada was celebrated with pomp and circumstance in the USSR somebody behind the “iron curtain” had to analyze the situation that had led to the known...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine and Russia – 20 years without empire: historical lessons
About two decades have already passed since the seemingly eternal “unbreakable Union” collapsed and became part of sometimes bloody, terrible, internally contradictory, and cruel...
31.01.2012 - 00:00
Europe began from unions of cities
It is obvious that the image of Ukraine has been distorted during the last century. The roots of many cities, towns, and villages were purged, denied, torn out of the memories, and a convenient myth...