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The Day
1 - Traditions of patronage revived
2 - A camp of energy purity
3 - In memoriam of Lviv’s Picasso
4 - Chimerical fountains in stone
5 - Ukrainian cinema rises from the ashes
6 - What’s your cure?
7 - Militiamen will be instructed to issue fines for smoking
8 - Teenage alcoholism on the rise
9 - Vacations at home
10 - Not a demarche, but a refusal
11 - “The general plan”: a country of quality, responsibility, and effectiveness
12 - EVENT
13 - The plight of the Roma
14 - Three points on the German agenda
15 - Putin’s “word of an honest party man”
16 - Art en plein air,
17 - Artistic “heatwave” sets in
18 - This day in history
19 - The fruits of the economic integration
20 - Bilingual mania
21 - Extraordinary session
Back in times of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas who pioneered the idea of patronage, people tried to conceive the necessity of it. Patronage has a peculiar meaning for Ukraine. The lack of funding has had a negative effect on the development of national culture and education. At the moment Ukraine has people for whom it is a question of honor to preserve and develop the national culture. The Coordination Council of Patronage and Charity of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine (whose honorary head is Minister of Fuel and Energy Yurii Boiko) is implementing systemic measures in this direction. The
This weekend near Vyshhorod, on the bank of the Desna River, an “Energy Camp” emerged. Its uniqueness lay in the fact that all the energy needs of its residents (heating water, operating computers, TV-sets, etc.) were provided by the devices that produce energy from renewable sources, including sunlight. This is how the organizers of the Ukrainian Network of Energy Innovation “Greencubator” decided to demonstrate the viability of renewable energy. About a hundred people came to the bank of Desna to see it in action, including NGO leaders, businesspeople, bankers, journalists, inventors, students, and volunteers.
The memory of the outstanding scene designer, people’s artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, senior artist of Lviv National Opera Yevhen Lysyk (1930–91) is being celebrated through an exhibition held in Lviv.
A festival called “Living Stone 2010” has finished in Cherkasy. This year the festival, held for a third time, was devoted to street fountains. It took sculptors four weeks to combine water and stone and thus implement their projects.
Contemporary Ukrainian cinematography is full of contradictions. At the turn of the decade the state of Ukrainian cinema was most accurately referred to as comatose. The destructive legacy of the 1990s had pervaded everything. There were some gestures, but not much else.
There are so many medicines on Ukraine’s pharmaceutical market today that you often hesitate which of the producers is to be trusted and preferred. But for many of our compatriots, this question is sometimes not so important. More often then not, Ukrainians look at the price, not the quality or the desired effect, of a medicament. Almost half of the Ukrainians ask doctors to prescribe them some cheaper analogues of the original preparations. This pushes to the background such a criterion as personal health and the chance of a speedier and full recovery. This was confirmed by GFK Ukraine experts who have conducted a survey at the request of the STADA CIS holding company
The WHO began holding training seminars for militiamen to teach law enforcement officers how to impose fines for smoking where prohibited. District militia officers will participate in the seminars. As reported by the coalition of NGOs “For a tobacco smoke free Ukraine,” these seminars are designed to explain all the aspects of the Law of Ukraine “On measures to prevent and reduce the use of tobacco products and their harmful effects on human health,” adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on September 22, 2005, with amendments in accordance with the Law of Ukraine No. 1512-VI of June 11, 2009 and No. 1824 of January 21, 2010.
The creation of alternatives for children threatened by alcoholism is essential to overcoming this social plague. If our government wants healthy teenagers it must organize alternative pastimes: sport, culture or arts.
People tend to have different definitions of a vacation. This may be the reason why a poll, held by the Kyiv International Institute in June 2010, asking Ukrainians what kind of vacations they were planning to take, yielded some strange results. For example, 66 percent Ukrainians were not planning to have any holiday whatsoever. They would either work or are already retired and have no money; others were planning to stay on their little plots of land out of town.
Simferopol – Another Qurultay [political council – Ed.] of the Crimean Tatar People took place in Simferopol last weekend. The items on the agenda concerned the people’s participation in the elections to the Crimean Verkhovna Rada and local governments, and the convention of an international forum on the restoration of the Crimean Tatars’ rights. The situation was spiced up by President Yanukovych’s decree, issued on the eve of the convocation of the Qurultay, which altered the composition of the Council of Representatives of the Crimean Tatar People attached to the president of Ukraine, and triggered a heated and variegated discussion among analysts.
Over the 19 years of independence Ukraine has made a huge jump from a closed society with deformed links to more a civil one. The country has already fulfilled a major goal: it has created the infrastructure of a civil society, such as civic organizations and movements, universities and intellectual centers, relatively independent mass media, and thriving private businesses. But, according to the well-known Ukrainian sociologist Yevhen Holovakha, there is one factor that stalls further development: high-quality human resources
The Ukrainian national team has won the Cerebral Palsy European Soccer Championships and will thus vie in the 14th Summer Paralympics scheduled for 2012 in London, reports the press service of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine.
NEW YORK – The Roma have been persecuted across Europe for centuries. Now they face a form of discrimination unseen in Europe since World War II: group evictions and expulsions from several European democracies of men, women, and children on the grounds that they pose a threat to public order.
Germany is a very important political and economic actor in the European Union and internationally. Ukraine is only too well aware of this. This may well be the reason why President Yanukovych paid his first official visit to Germany after the summer vacation on August 30. What gestures on his part did Berlin see prior to this visit? What are the prospects of German-Ukrainian relationships in general and Ukraine’s European prospects in particular? More on this in the following interview with Dr. Hans-Jurgen HEIMSOETH, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Ukraine. (Note please that the interview took place prior to President Yanukovych’s visit to Germany.)
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has made it clear in an interview with Kommersant that police will continue to disperse rallies being held without governmental permission. In Putin’s view, there is a very simple connection between the desire to hold a rally and taking a police beating: “You must get permission from the local authorities. Got it? Go and demonstrate. If not, you are not authorized to do so. You have come out unauthorized? Get a truncheon blow on your head.” The premier maintains he has nothing to do with the closing of Triumph Square for reconstruction, and does not even know that protest actions have been held there
The international project “PORTO FRANKO-2010,” which combines visual art, music, photography, theater, cinema, and art cuisine from around the world, took place in the capital of Prykarpattia region. Nearly 100 artists from Poland, Iran, France and China came to the “port of Frankivsk” seeking spiritual enrichment, new know-ledge, fresh discoveries and creative dialog.
While directors, actors, and other theater-related staff are getting ready to meet their audiences, the public is looking for the best shows to start the new season. First nights and anniversaries, benefit performances, other artistic events — all is set to begin soon.
1794: The City of Odesa is founded.
European integration remains a priority for our state, Yanukovych stated in his address on the 19th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. Ukraine’s entry into the international economic arena started after joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), which provided many new trading opportunities for domestic business. Now the next step in integrating Ukraine into the international economy is associate membership status in the European Union, for which we must pass another milestone: join the free trade area (FTA) with the EU
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov once again made a show of himself while visiting the Latvian capital, Riga. He proposed to institute Russian as the second official language in this Baltic state: “I think the time of this harum-scarum national priority is up and everything goes back to normal. Steps must be taken to make Latvia a bilingual country. It is not as yet, but I think this situation will change.” He added that Latvia and Latvians will only benefit from this in the business, cultural, and social spheres. “The Russian community of Latvia has potential and influence, and its voice is heard
Last Monday members of parliament cut short their vacations to rescind a discriminatory clause on local party cells. Now all parties, old and new, can take part in the October 31 elections. 264 MPs voted for the amendment moved by Oleksandr Yefremov.
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