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29 February 2012, 16:40 | Journalistic investigations |
Jewish Community Asks Ternopil Authorities to Return Prayer House
Our RISU correspondent talked to the Head of the Ternopil town and regional Jewish organizations, Ihor Banzeruk.
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20 May 2012, 15:18 | Andrew Sorokowski's column
On March 30, 2012 Party of Regions deputy Vadym Kolesnychenko introduced a bill in the Ukrainian parliament prohibiting homosexual “propaganda” aimed at minors.
11 May 2012, 15:27 | Analysis |
Fr. Omelian Kovch died 25 March 1944, three months before the liberation of the Majdanek camp 23 July 1944. Some 80,000 people were killed in the camp over 34 months including about 59,000 Jews. Blessed Omelian Kovch was for many prisoners their pastor. Today he bears the title “Pastor of Majdanek.” 9 January 1999 The Jewish Council of Ukraine proclaimed him a “Righteous of Ukraine.”
22 April 2012, 11:09 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
On Tuesday, April 10 – in the midst of the Eastern Christian Holy Week leading up to Easter – five members of the women’s group FEMEN suspended a seven-meter-long banner reading “Stop” from the belfry of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. The messagesignified their opposition to draft law No. 10170, which would overturn Ukraine’s rather permissive law on abortion and substitute a more restrictive one. The letter “t” in the English word “Stop” was written in the form of an Eastern Christian cross.
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God, the Gulag and the atheist | 15 May 2012, 15:09 | Society-digest |
Privatization Targets Culture | 2 May 2012, 15:55 | Society-digest |
Major archbishop calls predecessor a hero during Nazi Holocaust | 30 April 2012, 12:29 | Society-digest |
Ukrainian pysanka spheres tour the world
A personal exhibit of Oksana Mas’ installation at the Salvador Dali Theater and Museum, the Day newspaper reports
The exposition consists of four spheres, 2.5 m in diameter, laid with a mosaic of Ukrainian pysankas — hand-painted Easter eggs. The spheres are called “Geometry,” “A River in the Fall,” “White Lemon,” and “Blue Cat,” and are a logical continuation of the artist’s series “Helium 3.” We would like to remind our readers that this large-scale project started with a mosaic panel representing the Holy Virgin — Oksana Mas’ gift to the Sophia Kyivska National Architectural and Historical Reserve on Christmas, 2010.
“The exhibition of my work at the Dali Theater and Museum was possible due to the assistance of Carlos Casamora, president of Foundation Casamora, and the Gallery of Tetiana Kurochkina (Barcelona, Spain), as well as UNESCO,” Mas tells The Day. “The representative of this famous organization first got interested in my Holy Virgin panel for Sophia Kyivska. We met in Barcelona, and they made an order for a similar panel depicting the patron saint of Catalonia from the famous Pantocrator mural from San Clemente, a 12th century church. Moreover, UNESCO representatives were very enthusiastic and supportive of my idea to place my sphere in front of the Dali Museum.
It took two days to assemble and install the spheres in Figueras. “When the spheres were completely ready, it suddenly struck me, how organic they looked in the setting of such a cult place as the Dali Museum! Indeed, there is nothing impossible in this world: what was but a dream yesterday, becomes reality today,” emphasized the artist.
“It is an international project, and it proves that modern Ukrainian art is an organic part of the world artistic environment and can claim a place of honor in global culture.”
