№1, (2002)

Before you read this article try a little test. Take a clean sheet of paper, on one side write a list of ten negative aspects of your life here in Ukraine, now turn the sheet over and write down 10...

The Ukrainian Home Art Gallery displays ISADORA: The Dance, a one woman show by Kyiv artist Tetiana Voloshyna. Diverging from the great dancer’s biography is obviously an indispensable condition....

Nina Maksymova’s personal exhibit is on display at the Kroky... na... zustrich (Steps toward Encounter) Art Gallery. She is a Kyiv graphic artist and the exposition is titled Lyrical Line. Indeed,...

Such is the title of a dramatic trilogy written and directed by Vladyslav Troyitsky, starring the Bozhychi folk performing group. The first part, “Life,” premiered at the Dakh modern art center, to...

Here is a bird’s-eye view of the village Huta- Blyshchanivska. This picturesque hamlet, where a gypsy camp was once pitched, saw the dramatic events vividly described in the movie The Gypsy Girl Aza...

Those watching the ballet La Sylphide on January 9 at the National Opera had a rare opportunity to marvel at the skill of Ivan Putrov, a fellow Ukrainian, currently a soloist with Coventry Garden....

Born in 1495 by a Serb concubine, Suleiman was in many respects opposite to his father Selim I the Grim. While Selim was distinguished for wanton cruelty even to his next of kin, his son Suleiman,...

This wonderful piece of jewelry from the fifth century BC has been proclaimed the No. 1 archeological find in Ukraine in the first year of the third millennium. The gold signet ring was created by a...

The French composer’s charming music could serve as a symbol of European romanticism and undisguised human emotion. The brilliant Bizet lived a life as tragically short as that of the Spanish Romni...

It is no accident that the only all-Ukrainian newspaper holding annual international photo contest is called Den’/The Day. When this name had been chosen, it was assumed that the publication would...

Last year world press freedom deteriorated significantly. This is the bottom line of the report for 2001 of the Reporters Without Borders international organization whose goal is to protect the...

Many psychologists claim that an inclination to idolization is a characteristic of children. Both junior schoolchildren and teenagers often create themselves idols and try to imitate them, copying...

“I consider it an axiom that the number of those born and those dead undoubtedly correlates with the physical, political, and moral condition of a country’s residents.” Professor Heinrich von Storch...

Once, leafing through another whodunit in a library, I suddenly came across some interesting revelations of a book character, “an image-maker and spin doctor,” the owner of an election- campaign...

In the Ukrainian mass media in numerous speeches of Ukrainian politicians, the social order of the so-called civilized nations, particularly the USA, is presented to us as a model of democracy to...