The advent of 2007 - the eastern astrological Year of the Pig - has become a comic reason to anticipate bright prospects for Ukraine, the unofficial symbol of which is the Pig in its lard-garlic equivalent. Unfortunately, I cannot share the mass Ukrainian joy in anticipation of grace , which supposedly promises our country a “piggy” alignment of the stars. This is because, unlike the associative perception of the majority, the symbol of today’s Ukraine for me is not a cute, cheerful pig, but a completely different image.