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Ukraine makes a mistake by not considering India a priority country
The topic of military-technical cooperation between India and Russia is of interest for Ukraine because of the three facts. First, India is the world’s largest importer of arms. Second, 50...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
Egypt’s democratic dictator?
CAIRO – Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first-ever elected civilian president, recently granted himself sweeping temporary powers in order, he claims, to attain the objectives of the revolution...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
On Russian illusions
The Carnegie Moscow Center has recently published a report entitled “The Russian Awakening.” The authors of the report consider that a political...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
Fairytale Rus’ with a realistic implication
During the past few weeks, Ukrainian Internet users have googled the cartoon Fairytale Rus’ the most. This information is provided by MediaBusiness. The product of Studio Kvartal-95, which premiered...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
Israel’s missing peace offensive
TEL AVIV – Even before the latest cease-fire took hold, it had become clear that the dilemma facing Israel in Gaza entails more than simply developing military answers to the challenge posed...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
Number of victims of the typhoon in the Philippines has reached 230
Reuters, referring to the Philippines authorities, reports that the number of victims of the typhoon on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines has reached 230. According to other...
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This day in history
1650: Envoys of Gyorgy Rakoczi II, Prince of Transylvania, and of the Crimean khan arrive in Chyhyryn and inform Bohdan Khmelnytsky that he will not receive military assistance in his war against the...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
Viennese Fairy Tale
The famous Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna invites Kyiv residents and guests of the capital to the concert “Just Like in a Fairy Tale.”
The program of the orchestra concert...
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On responsibility and “standing in line for life”
The news that Ukraine’s Ministry for Public Health has drawn up and submitted to the relevant parliament committee a bill that simplifies the procedure of posthumous donorship (it is...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
The new Middle East’s new problems
BERLIN – When hostilities flared in Gaza last month, it seemed like the same old story was repeating itself. The world again witnessed a bloody and senseless surge of violence between Israel...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
Fifth Grand Antique Salon 2012 opens today
One of the largest exhibition projects in the Ukrainian antique market – Fifth Grand Antique Salon will be open at the Mystetsky Arsenal on 12 Lavrska Street from December 6 through 16....
06.12.2012 - 00:00
World of the blind through prism of photography
For over two weeks until December 16 on the initiative of the PhotoCULT Cultural Center and with the assistance of the Czech Center in Kyiv “Days of Czech Photography” project will...
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“A patriotic statement of the question”
On December 4 Vitalii Klitschko had a bilateral meeting with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been reelected for the seventh time the head of the Christian Democratic Union...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
Life with a taste of gasoline
Chernihiv environmentalists began the process of eliminating consequences of the old man-made accident that happened in December 1973 and because of which people there still cannot have a normal...
06.12.2012 - 00:00
Palestine is granted an observer state status
The President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed in Ramallah as a national hero when he came back from New York last week. In this way Palestinians celebrated his triumph at...