№1, (2009)

NEW YORK — In recent years, emerging-market countries, including those in Asia, have made impressive strides in strengthening their fundamentals, accelerating their economic growth and cushioning...

The launch of Oxana Pachliowska’s book Ave, Europa! generated a very special atmosphere that seldom observed during cultural events in Kyiv. People packed one of the halls of the Ukrainian...

If the Ukrainian political leadership paid more attention to contemporary quality literature, they would make a big discovery: all their moves and all those unexpected political and economic...

In the diversified and globalized world of today, establishing long-term contacts is the first step toward success. Seeking compromise and understanding, all countries in the world, including Ukraine...

Jan. 20 1661: The Polish king grants Lviv’s Jesuit Collegium “the status of academy and the title of university.” 1943: The first issue of the newspaper Ukrainske slovo comes off the presses in...

For more than two weeks Ukrainians have been waiting for their government to reach an agreement with Russia and put an end to the gas conflict, which is also affecting Europe. Some are trying to...

Money without culture is a lot worse than culture without money. Art patrons have carried out their noble mission throughout history guided by this thought. Fortunately, Ukrainian culture is in the...

In the photos you can see Boris Yeltsyn, George Bush, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger smiling to Kravchuk. One photo is from a reception in his honor in Washington, DC. In some other pictures...

1. Could you please rate the most important events on the international arena in 2008? Which of them, to your mind, were the most significant for Ukrainian society?2. Which events in Ukraine were...

Slovakia is one of the European Union countries that have suffered from the Russian-Ukrainian gas conflict but remained unaffected by the global financial crisis. Who does Bratislava blame for...

The Tchaikovsky Ukrainian National Music Academy’s Opera Studio is one of the most interesting cultural centers since most of its performers are the Academy’s undergraduates and post-graduates who...

A town made of ice has gone up in a public garden behind the building of the oblast state administration. Its main characters are heroes of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen: the Snow Queen,...

The adjective Rus’ seems unusual. There is Russian, while Rus’ as an adjective looks like a mistake. However, let us not jump to conclusions. I will attempt to argue that Rus’ as an adjective is a...

December 18, 2008, saw the 425th anniversary of the death of Ivan Fedorov (Fedorovych), an outstanding 16th-century printer. This date would have been a cause for celebrations in the Soviet era. For...

Over the past few years the last week of November has heard the mournful echo of an unprecedented 1932-1933 tragedy, the Holodomor, which was a famine artificially engineered in Ukraine by Stalin’s...