Editors of the Kazkovy Vechir [Fairy Tales Evening] newspaper arranged a magnificent holiday party for children from Ukraine’s regions at the Kyiv House of Clowns situated at the city circus. Three hundred and twenty children, winners of the Present for Mama contest, got their presents (bicycles, scooters, photo cameras, tape recorders, and television sets), delivered by Vice Speaker of Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Zinchenko. Then they went to the Inter Television Channel for an excursion through the studios, where they watched how television shows and in part news programs are created.
It is not the first time that Kazkovy vechir has held such contests. This time it received 16,000 works. Interesting that every participant got a present, a colorful form for lessons schedule.
“One of the contests’ main prizes, a tape recorder, was awarded to a girl from Odesa oblast for an embroidery,” the newspapers’ editor-in-chief Liudmyla Suvorova told us. “She also sent us a very touching letter. It appears that she took part in our Christmas contest but didn’t win a prize then. ‘I understand that I didn’t make enough effort that time,’ she wrote. ‘I worked for only three days. And I spent two weeks working on my new embroidery.’”
“What is the contest’s geography?” we asked Liudmyla.
“Works came from all Ukraine’s region and even abroad. One of our little subscribers lives in Spain. A former Ivano-Frankivsk resident sent us a letter from Germany. She says that she translates tales from our paper to her German schoolmates during the breaks.”
“ Kazkovy vechir has long become best assistant in mastering the Ukrainian language,” Oleksandr Zinchenko noted. “Entire school classes read it, and in Western Ukraine they give it as a present to best pupils. Kazkovy vechir is also my favorite newspaper, since all the others write about politics, while Kazkovy vechir is always a travel to the fairy land. Besides, all the articles are written in perfect Ukrainian.”
