“We are celebrating a person for whom cinema is the meaning of life. We’ll never see her name in film credits, but many of these films would never happen if not for her,” Mrs. Yushchenko said, handing over the award.
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Addressing the journalists, Mr. Myroshnichenko described major objectives and plans of the Ukrainian Film Foundation: creating a Ukrainian films catalogue, presenting best Ukrainian films at the international festivals, and promoting the Ukrainian cinema globally.
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The said event was the first in a series of actions organized by SSU to present the collection at Kyiv universities. Similar events are scheduled to be held at the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University and Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University.
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The children decided to instruct the Ukrainian winner-to-be to address the participants of the Junior Eurovision 2007 in Rotterdam and call them to conduct a charitable action in a benefit of dispossessed children. They put their proposals in writing, to be complied in a single document and red out at the contest’s final concert.
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The winner was selected today based on the recommendations of the Academic Council of the Book Publishers’ Forum. The award went to Personae: Essays on Historical, Political, and Cultural Figures by Yaroslav Dashkevychm published by Lviv-based Pyramid Literary Agency in 2007. The award was handed over by Head of the Board of Directors of Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Oleksandr Maksymchuk.
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Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko and Ukraine 3000 Fund members presented to the public the five books published in 2006-2007: The Candle of Memory: Oral History of the Ukrainian Genocide by Valentyna Borysenko, The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest (Ukrainian translation), Manmade Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933: Selected Articles compiled by Nadia Diuk, The Declassified Memory: The Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 through GPU-NKVD Documents compiled by Valentyna Borysenko, and Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: Documents and Materials compiled by Ruslan Pyrih.
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August 27, 2007, a round table titled Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 and Political Repression in Ukraine through Security Service of Ukraine Archive Documents was held at the Security Service of Ukraine headquarters.
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The Cossacks’ Fame for the Little Readers project envisaged presenting the Ukraine’s Hetmans books to schools in Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv oblasts. The book contains an intense and captivating story of our country in the Cossacks’ times, is richly illustrated, and is intended for junior and secondary schoolchildren, as well as all readers striving to learn more about Ukraine’s history.
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“Each of us has a Dreams Land of their own. I hope that, having visited this festival, you’ll understand what it used to be for your ancestor, what it is for you, and what it will be for your children. Together we’ll create our Dreams Land,” Mrs. Kateryna said.
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The Ukrainian Museum Development Center has received a present from the Embassy of the United States of America to Ukraine: a set of foreign publications on history, arts, and cukture history. The books will replenish the funds of a specialized public museum library, the Center’s subdivision.
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Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko and other members of the Fund attended the event at the Kyiv National Shevchenko University.
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The contest will continue throughout year 2007. Staff journalists and freelancers with printed media, television, and radio channels are invited to participate.
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Mrs. Yushchenko handed over to Head of the Chernihiv Oblast State Administration Mykola Lavryk a certificate for 850 copies of the Ukraine’s Hetmans for the Chernihiv oblast schools and libraries. 770 copies are to be distributed among schools and another 80 among the oblast libraries.
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The best museum events in 2006 were: Eastern Collection display at the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Arts Museum (first prize, UAH 25,000); Niko Pirosmanishvili one-man show at the National Museum of the Arts (second prize, UAH 15,000; the opening of the Mykhaylo Hrushevsky Memorial Museum (third prize, UAH 10,000).
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May 10, 2007, the Sumy Oblast Local History Museum hosted a ceremony of donating the Ukraine’s Hetmans books to Sumy Oblast schools and libraries. The event was part of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund’s Cossack Fame for Little Readers project.
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Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko Meets with Experts and Winners of the First Stage of the Grants Program for Small Cultural and Art Projects
In course of the meeting, the experts gave their evaluation of the project submitted to the contest, noting the importance of non-governmental support for cultural projects, since there are no other grant programs of this kind in Ukraine. Representatives of the winning organizations presented their projects to be implemented with the participation of Ukraine 3000 Foundation and took part in their discussion.
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