№10, (2002)

The colossal figure of Ivan Franko staggers his inquisitive descendants trying at least to visualize the scope of what the great stonecutter accomplished in the Ukrainian cultural domain. He was a...

Dmitry Rogozin, chairman of the Russian Duma’s International Affairs Committee, told journalists that, should former Premier Viktor Yushchenko win the election, Russia would face “radical nationalist...

The leader of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) Viktor Medvedchuk has issued a sharp statement in the wake of the arrest of Mykola Statkevich, the leader of the Belarusian Social...

The assassinations of NBU former Chairman Vadym Hetman and People’s Deputy Yevhen Shcherban, the Ukrainian budget looted of tens of millions of dollars by former Premier Pavlo Lazarenko, followed by...

In the last, most frenzied lap of the election race, the voters’ heads spinning with declarations, protests, and lawsuits, an increasing number of Ukrainians ask themselves whom they should actually...

The first court hearings in a lawsuit against the Security Service of Ukraine, SBU, and the Prosecutor General’s Office filed by parents of Yury Mozola who was killed in 1996 while kept in a pretrial...

Following the integration of Central European and Baltic countries into the EU and trade isolation of Ukraine (unless Ukraine joins the WTO), the Ukrainian commodity exports could shrink by at least...

President Leonid Kuchma has signed a decree On Creating a Chronicle of People’s Memory, reports Interfax Ukraine referring to the Information and Public Relations Office at the Presidential...

March 21 saw the opening of Volodymyr Krainiev Sixth International Young Pianists Contest. By a tradition, the contestants are divided into two age groups: junior, including children aged under 13,...

In Ukraine, chickens are traditionally counted in the spring, not in the fall. The awards season begins in March, when the past year’s impressions have been properly digested, and Ukraine comes up...

A festival recently ended in Kyiv after showing provincial talent at the capital’s art galleries, clubs, and drama studios for several days. In fact, provincial talent was the key intrigue for the...

Stage director Andriy Zholdak had practically no risk, resuming his production Carmen at the Ivan Franko National Theater. The original rendition had been quite a success and there had been just a...

Ostap Vyshnia (perhaps best described as the Ukrainian Will Rogers —Ed.) wrote a satirical essay titled “On Ukrainian Studies,” about all those becoming “overly interested” in Ukraine, meaning flag-...

St. Alexander’s Cathedral in Kyiv is marking its 160th anniversary this year (consecrated in 1842, under Nicholas I). Intensive preparations for the jubilee are underway. Among other things, the...

On March 18, People’s Deputy Mykhailo Hutsol, the leader of the Raiduzhny [Rainbow] election bloc whose registration was canceled by the Central Election Committee (CEC), sent a written request to...