Yurii Hubeni

Imagine that you became the owner of some production resource that can almost guarantee benefits, is self-renewable, and is of fairly good quality. What would you do? A rational approach and logic would presume that this resource should be properly protected, appreciated and used. Why doesn’t this...

Ukrainian lawmakers have lately made a few attempts to amend grain market regulation. Proposals, as always, were “from the bottom of one’s heart” and not “of convenience.” They ranged from a total export ban to export stimuli. It is obvious that such spontaneous...

This almost rhetorical question can be rephrased into a more general question: will we have a European model of agricultural policy? It is known that up to 60 percent of all the EU budget issues are linked to agriculture and rural areas in specially designed policies: the common agricultural policy...

A lot has been written about the difficult (and, according to some authors, disastrous) situation of Ukrainian villages, and not only in the form of heartrending prose or poetry, but also in serious journalistic or scientific studies. Volodymyr Yurchyshyn has done some particuarly significant...

It is too early to objectively assess the 12-year schooling term, as well as some other innovations. There seems to be, at first glance, not much difference, just a mere formality. Yet the situation is much more important, as it may close the doors of European educational institutions to our...

Environmental protection activities of the local student ecological club Eco-Life are known far outside Radekhiv. Every year young environmentalists choose a major topic that becomes an object of their attention throughout the year. Last year they studied the condition of a unique natural object –...

There is nothing that Ukrainians love more than anniversaries. In order to have a rip-roaring time (our people have a weakness for good times, above all our leaders, and especially when the bill is footed by the state or a company), any occasion or pretext is used. Today, no one is surprised to...