№1, (2002)

The process of globalization is far from new to mankind. It has been preceded by attempts of economic and cultural integration on an international scale. It can be said even that the harbinger of...

Ukraine’s National Union of Journalists will raise the money required to hold an impartial hearing of the case of Ihor Aleksandrov’s murder, provided it is held without further delay, reads an open...

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....

The government of Ukraine, always struggling to offset the budget deficit, has at last ventured, for the first time in the years of independence, to ask its citizens for rather a modest loan of 400...

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...

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...

On January 8 the Ukrainian Youth Bloc publicized its anti-corruption witness support and protection program, the Big Hunt, aimed at creating a mechanism of legal and social support of citizens who...

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...

Once again the state is calling upon its citizens to voluntarily pay its debts, and we are hearing about all the bright investment opportunities offered in this best of all possible worlds called...

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...

An audio recording of a telephone conversation allegedly between Kyiv Mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko and former Premier Viktor Yushchenko was made public at a press conference last Wednesday at the UNIAN...

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...

A group of German experts headed by Heinrich Bonnenberg has assessed, at the request of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the transparency of last year’s privatization in Ukraine, and,...

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...

January 15: 1935 . The first great show trial began of former leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (bolshevik) Grigory Zinovyev and Lev Kamenev, accused of counter-revolutionary activities....