Viche №1, 2011

Welcomes you, 2011 - the year when, perhaps, finally turn away of infinite Post-crisis barricade unnecessary promises rulers’ total suffocating pessimism! And come night light dominion over all earthly truths, false, evil, and cynical.

They say when Peresopnytske four gospels swear the first time President Leonid Kuchma, it opened to the Gospel of Luke, because of the recognized patron saint of science.  A second Kuchma opened the teachings of Jesus Christ ...

The Verkhovna Rada declared the year 2011 to be a year of Ukrainian first book and made decision at the state level to celebrate the 450-th anniversary of Persopnytsia Gospel.

In Rivne at the railway station local taxi-drivers did not know where Peresopnytsia village is, and only after they took the map, they answered: 34 kilometers from the regional center.

It would seem the seal of the God’s benediction lies on this name because under the rule of any governments and political systems the activity of the first printer Ivan Fedorov has been forever marked in the school textbooks.…

The Ukrainian Academy of Book Printing in 2010 celebrated its glorious anniversary which the collective of our educational establishment treated with considerable achievements in the scientific, educational, pedagogic, organizational and economic studies.

To declare or not the beginning of process of parliamentary elections is a dilemma which appeared before the Central Election Commission in connection with the “reanimation” of the Constitution of Ukraine dated 1996, according to which the cadence of…

He dreamed about the flight to the space for long decades, and we can only guess what cast-iron will and titanic work he had to make his dream come true.

Just like this, paraphrasing the known phrase of national artists of Ukraine Volodymyr Danylets and Volodymyr Moiseyenko, who at the beginning of their career came forward with the humorous act “Rabbits”, it is possible to say about the “rabbits”…

Leonid Kelvych is said to be a creative manager whose activity shares border with the art.

Christmas came to our houses together with the New Year. It is the holiday of birth, gladness, Ukrainian folk customs and traditions.

We will not take into consideration Africa, America and Tibet where as many pyramids as bees in spring. We are interested only in the European space – from Gibraltar to the Ural Mountains.

On the Earth there are the taciturn witnesses of human civilization which passionlessly look at everything that takes place around them. They keep the great number of secrets, riddles and unexplained phenomena.

Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on the questions of culture and spirituality conducted the extended meeting on a theme “About eviction of the museums of Ukraine from the territory of the National Kyiv-Pechersk historical and cultural preserve”.

The first night of the musical “Red Hat” staged by the cultural center “Kyivite” took place in Kyiv Operetta Theater. It is a musical performance which is danced and sung by children and for children.

Recently the habitants of the department Correze (France) have visited the French-speaking citizens of Sevastopol. The visit of Crimean citizens to Correze had proceeded to it.…

“ Ukrainian hockey is 100 years old” - this volume edition counts 400 pages of exciting history of origin on the Ukrainian land of the first teams which played Canadian hockey with a puck already then, in far 1910.…

Actually, this year the inflammatory center of the Argentine tango will carry out no less honoured, and maybe, far more important mission: on April, 23, 2011, when under an aegis of UNESCO all countries will mark the World Day…

On the day of our meeting with Ivan Drach I remembered that the year 2010 was the year of tango and in 2011 Buenos Aires is appointed by the world to be the capital of book.

The journey on the eve of the New Year to Pisky of Bobrovytskyi district which is in Chernigiv region will remain in my memory for a long time.

A new-year gift which would not dream even in the fairy-tale sleep was received by Angelica Rudnytska. Recently she has come back from Korea where at the known artistic forum she was awarded the honoured rank of the world master.

When do the dreams of our childhood become the matter of our life? If nobody prevents this light appeal of the child's soul. Exactly this happened with designer Inna Ivasyuk.