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On the eve of his twenty-fourth birthday, Volodymyr Klychko gave himself a present, the WBC Intercontinental champion’s belt. On March 18, in Hamburg’s overcrowded Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, he knocked...

March 28: 1708. Tsar Peter I decreed the introduction in Russia of the civil print type to replace the Old Church Slavonic one. 1944. Mykolayiv was taken from the Germans. March 29: 1864. A...

OBVIOUS BUT UNLIKELY About reform we hear much and see little. Reform is not a full market and poor people. That stage might be a step toward reform but in essence is not reform. The goal of...

Mykolayiv city council members have demanded that the Prosecutor General’s Office take an action against a foreign investor. “We reserve the right not to serve some customers in our establishment...

The commercial tender to sell a 30% interest in the Mykolayiv Alumina Plant (MAP) ended the Monday before last with the so far preliminary victory of Ukrainian Aluminum. The latter offered UAH 547.2...

Addressing journalists on March 24, Chairman of the board of directors of the Naftohaz Ukrayiny National Joint Stock Company, Ihor Bakai, announced his irreversible resignation. The function to...

Today’s Plast (Ukrainian Scouts) does not seem make as strong a public impact as expected by those reviving the movement here at the end of the 1980s on the wave of Ukraine’s national cultural...

The date of the Constitution Court ruling concerning the presidential edict calling the referendum will be postponed, court press service chief Volodymyr Shliaposhnykov declared. He confirmed that...

Hanna Bezsonova, an alumna of the well-known Kyiv-based Deriuhinas School, is soon to turn sixteen. Today, this young grace, who has already knocked at the door of international modern rhythmic...

The State Border Security Committee of Ukraine claims poaching has reached an enormous level. 44 Turkish schooners that fished in the Ukrainian waters were detected over the first two months of this...

The information reaching Ukraine’s man in the street via the audio, video, and print media, along with other electronic data transfer networks, despite its having been obviously carefully ladled out...

Our chronicles feature stories about Kyiv Prince Volodymyr Sviatoslavych and his choice of religion. He sent envoys to the Germans, Greeks, Bulgarians, even to the Arabs. He listened to a philosopher...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has handed over to the Verkhovna Rada Speaker a list of seven deputies now under scrutiny at the Prosecutor General’s Office. SBU chairman Leonid Derkach...

Three books written by women and published simultaneously is an extraordinary event in Ukraine. I have in mind Oksana Zabuzhko’s Chronicles from Fortinbras: Selected Essays of the 1990s, Vira Aheyeva...

The Cabinet of Ministers is setting up on the basis of the Food Industry Committee now being disbanded the State Food Department to be vested with governmental administrative powers. The renaming is...