№59, (2012)
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Medvedev dreams of buying Ukraine with his funny money. There are some willing to sell
Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Azarov to include Russia’s ruble in the first group of currencies (according to the Ukrainian National Bank’s...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Benefits for aircraft industry
Bill on abolishing the duties on a number of goods that are imported into Ukraine for the needs of aircraft manufacturers until 2016 was registered in the parliament. The author of the document is...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Nobel Prize week starts in Stockholm
Yesterday the 111th Nobel Prize week was opened in Stockholm (Sweden). Reportedly by UNIAN, this year’s Nobel cash prize is eight million Swedish kronas, which is an equivalent to...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Another step to …nowhere
Parliament has taken one more step towards land market in Ukraine by refusing to extend the moratorium on agricultural land sale until 2014. Only 111 MPs favored giving the moratorium a new lease...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1621: The Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Khotyn, with the contracting parties undertaking to restrain the Cossacks from raiding Turkish and Polish possessions....
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Ukraine remembers Anna Politkovskaya (Mazepa)
On October 7 various events in memory of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya took place all over the world. She was murdered in her apartment building on Lesnaya Street in Moscow on October 7, 2006....
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Having faith in art
Vasyl Shukhaiev worked in Saint Petersburg, Paris, and, when in 1935 he returned to the Soviet Union, he was immediately arrested and sent to a concentration camp in Kolyma. After 12 long years in...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
The energy of Kyrylo Karabyts’s music
It is both easy and complicated to present Kyrylo Karabyts. It is easy to start: he is a son of famous composer Ivan Karabyts and noted music expert, pedagogue at the NMAU Marianna Kopytsia. He was...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Trend for curtailment of rights and freedoms
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted in the first reading for the bill on amendments to some legislative acts (to protect children’s rights to secure information space). The bill was supported by...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Artifacts from times of Kyivan Rus’ discovered in Zhytomyr
Archeological excavations in the historic center of the city – Castle Hill are still in progress. A series of events took place before archeologists started their work at the site.In 1990 Holy...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Ukrainian Holodomor through children’s eyes
Short film with a working title Red Necklace will be made based on a real family story. Its author Tetiana Kondrashevska told at the press conference that this is a story from the life of a family...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Yuri Bashmet explained to Vladimir Putin why he holds Lviv so dear
The famous musician had to explain to the Russian President Vladimir Putin what specific reasons he had had to move the 4th Youth Music Academy of the CIS Countries’ venue from Minsk to Lviv...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
A look from aside
Anatolii Melnyk has been working as a director of the National Art Museum for 12 years. Most of this time he has hardly ever taken a brush, since, as he confessed, he has had no time. However, the...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Russia’s oil companies tapping into Venezuela’s oilfields
On September 26, Russia’s biggest state-controlled Rosneft oil company and a subsidiary of Venezuela’s PDVSA, La Corporacion Venezolana del Petroleo (CVP), signed trade agreements worth about 20...
09.10.2012 - 00:00
Birthday anniversary: time to look at the interim results
On October 7 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin marked his 60th birthday anniversary. For our northern neighbor (just as for its other neighbors) this event means something more than just a...