№1, (2006)

Ploske is one of the many villages in Rivne oblast. At first glance, it is an ordinary village without any special attributes. It is located far from transportation routes: about ten kilometers from...

The World Bank has published preliminary estimates of the economic impact of the Ukrainian- Russian agreement on increased gas prices. Whereas previously bank experts predicted Ukraine’s GDP growth...

During the Soviet period Nikolai Kuznetsov was regularly described in publications as none other than a “legendary intelligence agent,” a celebrated Soviet hero, and the pride of the famous partisan...

On Jan. 19 CEC Chairman Yaroslav Davydovych presented the 80-centimeter-long election ballot at the Verkhovna Rada. Five such “embroidered towels without the embroidery,” as the CEC chairman put it,...

Now that Ukraine’s constitutional reform has been partially implemented, the absence of entire legislative chapters is acutely felt, especially in the Crimea. A bill has yet to be passed on the...

Ukraine is facing the urgent need to fundamentally change its attitude to energy conservation policies, which should be founded exclusively on an economic basis. The recent gas war, whether lost or...

January 24 1944. The Corsun-Shevchenko offensive operation of the First and Second Ukrainian Fronts began. 1996. A Memorandum On Cooperation between Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and Sejm of Lithuania...

In 1581 Antonio Posevino, papal legate and member of the Order of Jesuits, paid an official visit to Moscow. As the Russian historian Nikolai Karamzin writes in A History of the Russian State, the...

Myroslav Skoryk’s opera Moses will premiere at the National Opera of Ukraine on January 27. It is staged by the young director Anatoliy Solovianenko and the distinguished musician and conductor Ivan...

Last Sunday some 3,000 residents of Lviv took part in the public meeting “Let’s Protect Ukraine” (read: the president and his government) organized by the Our Ukraine bloc. Before appearing in front...

The Ukrainian government has introduced licensing for the importation of beef, pork, horned cattle, and pigs in 2006. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine passed a resolution to this effect on Dec. 30...

The government crisis is dragging out dangerously: last Friday parliament adjourned for a winter recess without meeting the president halfway. The 9th session, the last one of the 4th-convocation...

Laura, the daughter of the Przezdiecki family of Polish magnates, met her untimely death in the distant year of 1874. Her grief- stricken parents commissioned Professor Viktor Brodsky of the St....

“Hey, guys, who are you for?” ask drivers of cars entering the Crimea by the Odesa highway. “We’re for friendship between Ukraine and Russia,” reply the picketers. “Then count us in; give us one of...

The cold weather is forcing people to take care of themselves, as well as animals, especially exotic ones. While you can dress a dog in overalls and a hat, it is far more difficult to deal with an...