Ukraine / All Themes
Beneath the sails of Paris
23.08.2008 14:29
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Summer is in full swing, so it’s time to talk about Paris. You won’t find a better conversationalist for this topic than Oleh Skrypka, the lead singer of the Ukrainian rock group Vopli Vidopliasova (VV), who lived in this legendary capital for nearly seven years.
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Straw kingdom
23.08.2008 14:29
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This year the Ukrainian Museum of Folk Architecture and Daily Life in the village of Pyrohove, near Kyiv, again attracted the country’s best wickerwork artisans. “According to our creative council, most of the craftsmen used to come from western Ukraine, but this time craftsmen from every region of Ukraine took part in the festival, “ said the museum’s research associate Oleksii Dolia.
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Slavic bazaar in Vitebsk: lots of publicity, politics, and songs
23.08.2008 14:29
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Every year Rodion Bas, the director general of the International Slavic Bazaar Music Festival in Vitebsk, is asked the same question: What’s the difference between this year’s festival and the one last year?
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Under a foreign yoke
23.08.2008 14:29
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Here is a vivid example of one of these stereotypes: it has been claimed that Drahomanov was indifferent, or even hostile, to the ideals of Ukraine’s national liberation throughout his life, and the 20-th-century radical Ukrainian thinker Dmytro Dontsov was one of the most ardent defenders of this thesis. According to Dontsov, Drahomanov was ostensibly a liberal, a federalist, and a cosmopolitan by conviction. This alone meant that he could not have been a consistent advocate of an independent Ukrainian state.
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A romantic in the era of pragmatism. Dmytro Dontsov in the context of 20th-century Ukraine
23.08.2008 14:29
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In contemporary Ukraine, Dmytro Dontsov (1883-1973) remains at best a partially acceptable but mostly controversial figure. It is difficult to imagine a non- Galician city that would name a street after this great patriot or a university that would readily agree to hold a conference devoted to this creative personality and his ideas. Yet Dontsov played an outstanding and fateful role in the formation of Ukrainian national ideology, and he occupies a prominent place in Ukrainian culture.
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The way it was
23.08.2008 14:29
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In 1888 tsarist Russia celebrated — for the first time on such a scale — the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Kyivan Rus’ and honored the memory of Prince St. Volodymyr. Oddly enough, until that year The Day to honor the Rus’ enlightener — the Holy Equal to the Apostles Grand Prince Volodymyr — (July 15, according to the Julian calendar) had been marked rather modestly in the Russian Empire.
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Smart and smarter
23.08.2008 14:29
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One should give the current Minister of Education and Science Ivan Vakarchuk his due. After taking up this office, where he inherited a mess not of his own making, he tackled it heroically. The mess is this year’s entrance examinations campaign, an area that is riddled with problems.
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A barrier on the way to the European dream
23.08.2008 14:29
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A hostel for 200 foreign migrants recently opened in the village of Rozsudiv in Chernihiv oblast, on the premises of a formal military unit. Migrants can stay there for up to six months even if they are not employed. There are plans to enlarge the hostel so that it can accommodate 500 seekers of a better life.
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Valerii KHOROSKOVSKY: “All the established contraband schemes have been eliminated”
23.08.2008 14:29
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Ukraine has five years to implement the European program “Custom Service-2013.” Where should one start and will there be enough time to implement all the reforms, which took European countries 50 years to do?
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James Mace
23.08.2008 14:28
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Arsen Zinchenko, a member of the 1st Convocation of the Ukrainian parliament, has launched a publishing project called Stoziria (A Hundred Stars), which is part of the Library of the Ukrainian Family. Many well-designed and illustrated books in this series have already been published. Each of them focuses on a certain historical figure. Mr. Zinchenko suggested that I write a book on James Mace. This book will soon be published. Here I would like to share some reflections with readers of The Day , the newspaper to which Mace devoted, in my opinion, the best years of his life. A US citizen, this eminent researcher of the 1932-1933 Holodomor was inseparably linked with the Ukrainian nation.
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From servility to revolt, non-stop
23.08.2008 14:28
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You mentioned the project “The Name of Russia: Historical Choice 2008.” How do you explain the fact that the Russians’ top choices are Tsar Nicholas II, Stalin, and Lenin?
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What church do we call “our own”?
23.08.2008 14:28
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Professor Khmelko, everybody studied history in school, but for some reason, as many as 23 percent of eastern Ukrainians and 16 percent of those in the south consider present-day Russia to be the successor of Kyivan Rus’. There are many Ukrainians who find it difficult to answer this question: 16 percent nationwide, about 17 percent in central and southern Ukraine, and 26 percent in the east. Why is that?
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Pyrohove museum gains title to 131 hectares
23.08.2008 14:28
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The Kyiv City State Administration (KMD) recently adopted a decision to transfer the title to 131 hectares of land to the Pyrohove State Museum of People’s Architecture and Folkways of Ukraine.
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Scientists expose tobacco myths
23.08.2008 14:28
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Women’s conviction that smoking helps to control weight is a myth, as evidenced by the findings of a team of experts at University College London. During a six-year-long study the scientists followed some 3,000 children between the ages of 11 and 16 and found no differences in the weight of smoking and non-smoking teenagers.
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The decline of track and field in Dnipropetrovsk
23.08.2008 14:28
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The athletes of Dnipropetrovsk and their coaches have sounded the alarm. They say that the preparations for the Euro- 2012 soccer championship are threatening the development of track and field (athletics), often called the “Queen of Sports.” Traditionally, track and field athletes have always practiced at the local stadiums, which, in addition to soccer fields, had running tracks, long-jump pits, throwing sectors, and other infrastructural elements.
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