№1, (2008)

According to the Oriental calendar, the year beginning on Feb. 7, 2008, is the Year of the Rat. Every Year of the Rat, which occurs once every 12 years, augurs a good financial situation but may also...

Jan. 15 1826: The uprising of Ukraine’s Decembrists (Chernihiv Regiment) is suppressed in the vicinity of the village of Kovalivka. 1992: The Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the...

Ukraine continues to celebrate the Christmas holidays with such forms of entertainment as concerts and plays. Meanwhile, for the heads of the Christian churches in Ukraine, Christmas is not only a...

It’s a good thing when bad forecasts do not pan out. For example, last November Ukrainian doctors predicted that flu and acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI) cases would peak in late December-...

Vasyl Stus was born in January 1938 and 20 years later he wrote: Rejoice in the days and nights of spring, In the tender smiling light of dawn! Helmsman, full ahead! Let our youth burn out, For we’re...

Your rating of worldwide events in 2007. Which of them do you think were the most important for Ukrainian society? What events in Ukraine drew the greatest attention abroad, including your country...

BRUSSELS — Late last year the presidents of the European Parliament and the European Council signed a regulation supporting the development of European political foundations and widening the scope of...

Ukrainian students are facing difficulties now that they have to write exams according to the Bologna Process standards. Much has been said and written about the Bologna Process, and the whole thing...

“Our Christmas” is the name of a new creative project carried out under the aegis of the President of Ukraine (the idea belongs to Taras Chubai, the leader of the rock group Plach Yeremii; staged by...

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously observed that a man cannot step into the same river twice. By this he meant that the passage of time inevitably changes both the character of the man and the...

A roundtable recently took place at Kyiv City Hall, attended by the chief doctors of the capital’s main medical institutions. The head of the standing commission of the Kyiv City Council on health...

“No to raids on medicine!”, “We won’t let the heart of Kyiv’s medicine be destroyed!”, “SOS-this hospital is in danger!” were the messages on the placards held by the personnel of the Central...

Yurii USHCHAPOVSKY, associate professor at the Department of Economic Theory at Zhytomyr State Technological University 1. “The year 2007 was very uneven, and I remember it because of the...

A New Year without old problems and the chance to start with a clean slate: that is what both ordinary people and those in power really want. But it is futile to expect external changes without...

Delhi at night greeted our plane with drizzling rain and mist, which reminded us of the past Ukrainian autumn. Then we headed for the state of Kerala. Translated from the local Malayalam language, it...