Once, in Donetsk, the poet Dmitry Pavlychko came up to the group of local youth that was picketing with communist banners the building where he was citing his poems. He asked, ‘Did you read at school the works of Pavlychko-poet? It’s me’. – ‘Yes, we did …’ ‘Maybe, that’s the problem…’ the author of these lines thought. The poet Andrey Khadanovich won’t be read at schools. He is from another poetry an from...

Russians seize the Ukrainian markets, and they order music. Donetsk has become the second city after Kiev to have the specialized shop of musical gear for show business. The presentation of the musical saloon owned by the famous Russian network ‘MuzTorg’ took place in Donetsk. On...

The campaign on external testing has been completed. Bu despite all assurances of offcials, bribing could last more and schools and universities could lose their adjusted for years the educational consistency. All that is on the background of price rise for education and complete indifference of business to the educational institutions’ needs. Rector of the Donetsk National University Vladimir Shevchenko...

The Director General of Ukraine’s Insurants’ Association of Ukraine Leonid Khorin, ‘One should perceive the insurance company not as friendly partner but as commercial organization, which sole purpose is not the well-being of the client but getting profits at the cost of that client’. Perhaps, many of our readers had to spend much money, tie and nerves for attempts to get their legal compensation. At the...

Around vaccination in Ukraine, passions don’t calm down. The obligatory vaccination against measles and rubella brought to multiple cases of health deterioration. On 13 May the senior class pupil from Kramatorsk died after the inoculation against measles and rubella. On 19 May he Ministry of Public Health suspended the campaign of mass immunization of young people against measles and rubella. At the same time,...

Inhabitants of the half-million sea city of Mariupol are reading summaries of the production increase by metal giants with horror, though the official statistics states the improvement of ecological situation in the city. The citizens are sure of the contrary – it is much harder to breath now. Unreasonable location of works and city arrangement in soviet times resulted in smog emitted by the 'Azovstal' complex...

The TV channel 'Inter' has finished the project 'Great Ukrainians'. Rating was headed by Great Kiev Knight Yaroslav Mudry (1019-1054) that 648 443 people voted for, or 40.02% of all contest participants. There is wrong belief that the representative of Scandinavian dynasty of Rurikovichs who has become Great Ukrainian, is different from his relatives who were cruelly fighting for power in Kiev Rus. He allegedly...

After the victims applied to the Prosecution General’s Office, Slavyansk prosecutors undertook to render assistance. They had one problem with the family of Alexandrovs, for the procedure of confiscation for the government in order to reimburse the expenses for investigation actions was not paid. That legal confusion was called by one of the prosecutors quite strangely, 'There are difficulties in the verdict...

The exact copy of the necklace that sank at 'Titanic' is exhibited in the Donetsk jewelry saloon 'Royal Diamonds'. The central blue sapphire weighs 65 carats, two oval sapphires weighing 7.6 carats and 104 diamonds weigh 20.65 carats cost more than a million dollars… It is hard to find anyone who wouldn’t heart the story of a legendary 'Titanics', symbol of adventures and shocks. The greatest, the most powerful...

For a couple of week there were spreading rumors that almost all the teachers of the Azov Sea Institutes of the Odessa National Academy was under the sight of the Economic Crime Investigation Department. The truth is that the teaching methods specialist took the undertaking of not leaving the place. The witnesses are dozens of teachers, that is, the majority of scientific employees of the Institute. The Institute...

In former Yuzovka an in today's Donetsk there are settlements like Azotny, Durbaya Balka and cemetery Krasny Pakhar ('red ploughman'), where all the life contradictions are smoothed with shovel. The graves are close to the river, where the drinking water is taken from. What kind of health it might be? As for the environment, the Donetsk oblast is a record one; it takes the first place in harmful wastes into atmosphere....

'You know, the leaflets that were agitating for Hitler when he came to Ukraine had the main idea: Fuhrer was bringing Ukrainians well-being. Some social allowances… you know I was very much alike… that is, if you stress out the 'Fuhrer' and write down another name, it will be just the same…' Writers, Kapranovs brothers, state that the level of supporting V. Yanukovych directly depends on the number of libraries....

If to believe that Ukraine is really split, then nothing could unite, say, Donetsk and Lvov better than common problems and friendship against the capital city, moreover that those problems are extremely sharp. Today those two poles are equal and united at least in that they want to stand for their money and to successfully finish the preparations for Euro-2012. In addition, it will help to clarify who is really 'feeding'...

The criminals just threw away the legal owners of their flats feeling strong 'shoulder' of their 'roof' that the legal owners of their flats experiences in full. Of course, without covering çà corrupted elements from militia, prosecution, courts, utilities administration, Bureau of Property Inventory, the long activity of such group wouldn't have been possible. The broken furniture, torn down floors, destructed...

There are cases when a man gets into trouble and just several minutes separate him from death. The symbol of the service always ready to come to rescue has become, of course, 'Ambulance'. People believe in urgent help and, having called 03, they piously believe that their salvation is close. But few think of the person, who is between the 'angel-savior' and a human desperately...

It is known that Donbass is native land of gods. But not many know that from the end of the century before last, the ancestors of British kings settled here… ‘V. V. Bervy-Flerovsky died in October 1918. On the place where the scientist is buried, there is a small park called in his behalf. It has the obelisk made of polished granite. Donetsk people honor the memory of the wonderful worker and revolutionist,...