№1, (2008)

Just before the New Year celebrations, on Dec. 27, President Yushchenko established the National Constitutional Council to draw up a new version of the Constitution of Ukraine. A unique political...

KHMELNYTSKY OBLAST — A roll of fabric is like a Tree of Life. In placing their cross stitches on cloth, skilled female embroiderers express their views of the special features of their native village...

Even though it is too early to assess the performance of the new coalition cabinet, the first decisions handed down by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, her first statements, declarations, and edicts...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...