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№15, Tuesday, 16 2010

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New cabinet: external and internal testing To paraphrase a popular advertisement, you have dreams, while they have means to achieve them. Time is clocking away. Everything was done quickly and neatly. It took just three hours to form a coalition and to appoint a new Cabinet of Ministers and the new Security Service (SBU) chief Valerii Khoroshkovsky. Ukrainians win another Paralympic bronze medal For the second day running we have been receiving good news from the 10th Paralympic Games in Vancouver. The contestants have already won 12 out 66 awards and Ukraine places second after Russia, with two gold, one silver, and three bronze medals — all won in the biathlon standing. Russia has four gold, four silver, and two bronze medals. Australia places third with two gold and one bronze medal, followed by Canada with three silver medals. “Struggle, and ye shall overcome the foe!” This year Taras Shevchenko Prize laureates were ceremoniously awarded on March 9. Among them was The Day’s contributor Oxana Pachlovska. She was unable to attend the awarding ceremony because the new semester had started at the university in Rome where she is a lecturer. She asked Maria Matios, a writer and member of the Shevchenko Prize Committee, to convey her gratitude to the organizers and wrote a brief comment on the symbolic aspect of this award. This day in history 1910: The first issue of Ukrainsky holos comes off the presses in Canada.	Ukrainians win another Paralympic bronze medal “Struggle, and ye shall overcome the foe!” This day in history

DAY AFTER DAY

Mother Superior Stefana’s holy mountain Lutsk — This year the convent temple in Zymne is going to see an especially moving and solemn Easter Day service not only because of the feast that all Orthodox Christians celebrate. The church service will include for the first time the performance of the local schoolchildren’s choir that sings religious and patriotic songs. This is a momentous event for the residents of Zymne, the temple’s parishioners, the nuns, and personally Hegumenia (Mother Superior) Stefana (secular name Valentyna Bandura). How did Slovakia get over Meciarism? Lessons for Ukraine BRATISLAVA — Slovakia is several years younger than independent Ukraine. After bidding farewell to the Czech Republic in 1993, it has shown considerable progress by joining the EU and NATO, something Ukraine is still dreaming about. The Slovak Republic is considered to be the best graphic example of integration into Euro-Atlantic structures. Moreover, Slovakia and Slovenia are the only post-socialist countries to have entered the euro zone. “A breakthrough needs an environment. Ukraine already has one.” Odesa welcomed the other day Yevgeny Yasin, Russia’s ex-minister of economics in the Boris Yeltsin government. The economist arrived in his native city to establish “an intellectual environment and foci of education on the basis of the Higher School of Economics.” The academic chose Odesa to carry out his educational project. Re-Repairing Bosnia Bosnia’s future is becoming increasingly uncertain. An ethnic veto has long made the central government ineffective, and, most recently, Milorad Dodik, the leader of the Serb-controlled entity, Republika Srpska, has responded to efforts at reform with a threat to hold a referendum on independence. About correct vision on country The Day’s photo exhibit has opened in Drahomanov National Pedagogical University. It offers 200 vivid photos as a present for teachers and students in the first days of spring, a present of fixed moments of the last year in the life of our country. What can be more precious than our life fixed in time? Lina Kostenko once wrote: “It’s not the time that passes; it’s us that pass.” How can we make our society healthy? “Make society healthy” is a joint project launched by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Klitschko Brothers Foundation and geared towards helping young and ambitious Ukrainians, who are anxious to perfect Ukrainian society. EVENT No essential reforms are possible in Russia until Vladimir Putin has real power in the country. “The dismantling of Putin’s regime and turning the country in the direction of democratic development can only start when Putin is deprived of all leverage to rule the country and society,” reads the address signed by the representatives of the liberal, left-wing, and nationalistic opposition. Among those who signed the document are human rights activists Vladimir Bukovsky, Alena Bonner, and Lev Ponomarev;	How did Slovakia get over Meciarism? Lessons for Ukraine “A breakthrough needs an environment. Ukraine already has one.” Re-Repairing Bosnia About correct vision on country How can we make our society healthy? EVENT

CLOSEUP

You can own what is yours, love other things It happened so that I spent years and even decades speaking about this lasting, persisting subject. I won’t recall what happened in the 1960s. I will address the more recent times. In 1989, at the peak of the glasnost campaign, the Republican Association of Ukrainists (RAU) was established in Ukraine. Its membership boasted scholars versed in Ukrainian history and culture. Its purpose was to stimulate and coordinate research into problems that had been previously ignored or simply banned (another Green zone with your own hands In order to plant flowers in your house’s yard, set up benches, or clean up near a lake or river, you shouldn’t wait for someone’s example. Some people act exactly this way. Tasty and safe Recently the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the bill “On Changes to the Law ‘On Children’s Food’” that sets tougher production standards for children’s food. From now on the manufacturers have no right to use genetically modified raw materials or those containing hormonal agents, antibiotics, heavy metals, pesticides, radioactive nuclides or any other agents hazardous to the child’s health. Among the banned components are synthetic food aromatizers, dyes, sweeteners (except for products meant for	Green zone with your own hands Tasty and safe

ECONOMY / SOCIETY

Player’s psychology At the beginning of March Ukrainian television launched its version of the world-known show “Deal or No Deal.” Every person aged 18 and over who loves taking risks and has a well-developed intuition can take part and try to win one million hryvnias. Is there any reason to expect slower inflation? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects this year’s inflation in Ukraine to be under 10 percent. Interfaks-Ukraina reported that this was the statement that Max Alier, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine, made recently at the Investments Forum in Kyiv. He noted that the annual inflation in Ukraine went down to 11 percent in January and will keep within single digits. According to Alier’s words, this is a preliminary prognosis by the IMF, while the final one will be announced later. “Ukraine in the 21st Century: Alternatives and Development Strategies” Odesa National Mechnykov University’s Institute of Social Sciences, including its Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Association, and the Ostroh Youth Club of Free Intellectual Communication recently held a high-profile conference, “Ukraine in the 21st Century: Alternatives and Development Strategies.” The organizers decided to divide this broad topic into two parts: first, a discussion of Ukraine’s domestic policies, institutional, and sociocultural principles for developing a high-quality Learning to cut our coat according to our cloth Now that Ukraine has still to figure out where it really is, at the bottom of the crisis or starting to rise above the lowest economic level, this society badly needs positive signals. Here is perhaps the first one. On March 10, the National Bank of Ukraine lowered the refinancing rates for overnight bank loans against government bonds from 15.5 to 12.5 percent per annum. For so-called blank loans, which are granted collateral-free, lenders will be charged 13.5 instead of 17 percent interest. Another	Is there any reason to expect slower inflation? “Ukraine in the 21st Century: Alternatives and Development Strategies” Learning to cut our coat according to our cloth

CULTURE

Searching for joy Moscow – First staged in the late 2008 at the Theater of Nations (the descendant of the Theater of the Friendship of Nations, the USSR celebrity of the 1980s), Shukshin’s Short Stories have since visited many international theater forums. Their tours are schedules a whole year in advance, and just for these three days, 18th to 20th March, Kyivites will be able to see the famous play performed at the Russian Drama Theater. To be more precise, only the lucky owners of the quite expensive tickets will Lonely migrant’s experience Franz Kafka never visited America, but his first novel was about this faraway country. The writer was fumbling for his own style, grotesquely and half-fantastically depicting an individual’s ordeal amidst a strange environment. The location there still refers to some more or less definite geographical realities, and the hero, Karl Rosman, has not yet turned into the mysterious K. of The Process and The Castle. “Always tell people the truth” Bohdan Kozak is a creative personality, a wonderful actor at the Maria Zankovetska National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater in Lviv, director, pedagogue, theater expert, academician of the National Academy of Arts, professor at Ivan Franko Lviv National University. Recently the list of Kozak’s numerous titles has been supplemented by another, perhaps the most important, one: he has become a winner of the Shevchenko Prize. The actor received the high artistic award for the concert performance of	Lonely migrant’s experience “Always tell people the truth”

HISTORY AND I

Agonizing Terezin: an afterwar battle On the 12th of May they recorded 114 cases of typhus, on the 13th there were 170 new cases. By the 15th of May, the number of victims had reached 200. These figures show the number of typhus cases that appeared after releasing the inmates of Terezin, a former concentration camp located near Prague, in the spring of 1945. It was one of the last Nazi death camps to be liberated.

TIME OUT

Dialogue between naive and modern The project Topical in Folk Style, now launched by the Ya Gallery art center and Rodovid Gallery, shows a dialogue between the naive (bucolic) and the contemporary Ukrainian art. Project managers Lidia Lykhach and Pavlo Hudimov focus on light which is an important element in folk landscape and is inevitably traced in the present-day post-landscape. This can be read in the exhibit announcement. Bulgakov’s note from 1924 Recently a guest from Chicago visited Kyiv — Leonid Stonov, a famous human rights advocate, director of the International Bureau on Human Rights & Rule of Law in the countries of the former USSR, and president of the Union of Councils for Jews in the former Soviet Union. His father, the writer Dmitry Stonov, was a friend of Mikhail Bulgakov in 1920-30s. History seen through photo camera lens The first two photo albums by Oleksandr Klymenko (a regular contributor to The Day’s annual photo exhibit) were dedicated to what can be best described as global topics: “Ukraine: Ten Years of Progress” and “Ukrainian Peacekeeping Contingent: The First Decade.” His third album Through Fire and Tears is a very large-scale and eye-opening project, concerning such sensitive issues as war and peace. It consists of 300 pages of photos. It was published by Pres-kit as part of the Ukrainian Book program	Bulgakov’s note from 1924 History seen through photo camera lens

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Agonizing Terezin: an afterwar battle

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