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26.10.2009 Members of the network “Schools Promoting Health” have given their presentations
On 22 October 2009, within the framework of the “Lyceum Assemblies” week, Kharkov Comprehensive School # 37, Kharkov Comprehensive School # 168 and Kharkov Specialized School # 162 gave presentations to study, generalize and share experience of the National Network “Schools Promoting Health” members. Kharkov Comprehensive School of 1-3 stages # 37 ( http://school37.edu.kh.ua/ ) answers the model of...
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21.10.2009 Kharkov Pedagogical Lyceum # 4 celebrates its 50th anniversary
On 16 October Kharkov Pedagogical Lyceum # 4 (15/17 Lermontovskaya Str) held festivities on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The celebrations included a ceremonial line-up of school’s alumni of all time, the presentation of the book “Nostalgia for the 4th” created by the school’s alumni and dedicated to its history, and reunions of classmates and teachers. In the evening the Ukrainian Civil Defence University Club hosted a concert prepared by the students of Kharkov Pedagogical Lyceum # 4...
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09.10.2009 Days of Jewish Culture in Kharkov
The first capital of Ukraine is a multinational city with a well-established cultural and ethnic history. Harmonious relationships between people of various ethnicities demand painstaking spiritual work, tactfulness and promotion of education. On 11-18 October 2009, to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the JOINT (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) and the 10th anniversary of the Jewish...
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07.10.2009 Opening of the Travelling Film Festival Docudays Ua 2009 (Human Rights Documentary Days)
5 October saw the opening of the 6th Travelling Film Festival Docudays Ua 2009 (Human Rights Documentary Days). The programme of the travelling festival 2009 is made up of the 6th International Docudays Ua Festival winners, as well as prize winners of the most famous international film festivals. The topics touched upon by filmmakers range from stupefying stories of people living in war zones or at the times of natural and other disasters to problems of gender equality, discrimination, children’s and disabled people’s rights violations...
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03.10.2009 First results of the Karpov-Kasparov match
On 22-24 September the Spanish town of Valencia hosted a chess match between 12th world champion Anatoly Karpov and 13th world champion Garry Kasparov. The three-day supermatch ended, as all their previous battles for the world crown, which started 25 years ago, with a victory of younger and more energetic Kasparov. Before the match Karpov and Kasparov, bitter rivals in the past, tried their hardest to display mutual respect and emphasize that they are only opponents at the chessboard...
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01.10.2009 World Teachers’ Day
Ever since 1994, on 5 October each year, over 100 countries celebrate what is known to be World Teachers’ Day, which was created following the Special Intergovernmental Conference on the Status of Teachers, held in Paris on 5 October 1966, where UNESCO and International Labour Organization representatives signed a document called Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. The World Teachers’ Day was first celebrated on 5 October 1994, and since then festivities have been held on this very day or in some countries around 5 October...
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30.09.2009 On 30 September Ukraine celebrates the All-Ukrainian Day of Libraries
Today there are around 20,000 universal public libraries in Ukraine. The library stock numbers about 350,000 items. The biggest libraries of Kharkov are: Kharkov State Scientific Korolenko Library; Kharkov Regional Youth Library; Kharkov Regional Children’s Library; Kharkov Central District Library; Kharkov Regional Universal Scientific Library ( www.library.kharkov.ua ); Municipal Specialized Musical and Theatrical K...
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24.09.2009 Closing of the festival of fiction "Star bridge-2009"
The eleventh festival of fantasy “Star Bridge-2009” was held in Kharkov from 17 th to 20 th September. First held in 1999, it immediately became an international event and has been widely reported in the media in Russia and Ukraine. And this time was no exception. Every year more and more participants come from different countries of the CIS, USA, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Israel, Poland, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova...
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21.09.2009 Historic match between Karpov and Kasparov
A chess match between the 12th world champion Anatoly Karpov and 13th world champion Garry Kasparov will begin today, 21 September, in Valencia (Spain). This game will be historic for 58-year-old Karpov and 46-year-old Kasparov: 25 years ago they first had a fight for the world chess crown. It is this date to which today's match is devoted. The match itself is already called "nostalgic" by chess experts...
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16.09.2009 Kharkov Assemblies 2009
From September 24 till October 11 Kharkiv will host the Kharkov Assemblies international music festival, which will become a jewel of the cultural life of the city for the 16th time already. Its eminent participants noted that it’s a great deal this particular festival that helped many musicians of this country to obtain international recognition and managed to make an impression on well-known artists from Europe and America which now consider it an honour to be invited to the autumn Assemblies in Kharkiv...
