№10, (2010)

Berlusconi welcomes beautiful female immigrantsItalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stated that his country welcomes immigrants, but only if they are beautiful girls, as reported by France Presse...

1918: Local history museum is founded in Cherkasy. 1918: The Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey) resume hostilities after Soviet Russia refuses to sign a peace treaty....

Until recently Yulia Tymoshenko was in the center of public attention, considering that she offered no comment on the results of the 2010 presidential election for almost a week. Despite the...

As a Georgian-born Armenian who “served a sentence in a Soviet prison for Ukrainian nationalism,” Sergei Parajanov took his vengeance on Ukraine “with his love.” He passed away 20 years ago, but...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has commissioned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to start negotiations with Ukraine concerning technical and judiciary aspects of a visa waiver regime. The...

It would be wrong to say that Ukrainian television is hopeless. From time to time, it produces something worthwhile out of its maze of channels – but this is strictly regimented and mostly shown at...

Ambassador of France to Ukraine Jacques Faure presented Oleh Skrypka with the honorary Ordre des Palmes Academiques which was founded by Emperor Napoleon I in 1808. This order is given to educators...

The reason for the meeting was a professional holiday – The Day of Russian Diplomatic Service. There were many guests (fellow diplomats, accredited in Ukraine, politicians, businessmen, lawmakers,...

From now on Ukraine will have better chances of attracting direct foreign investments. At least, representation of the Ukrainian government and the European Union are convinced in this. Kyiv recently...

The Lutheran Evangelical Church of Saint Paul is one of the biggest historical monuments in Odesa. Local people call it simply kirkha and often add the epithet “long-suffering.” The construction of...

ODESA — “Tomochka, do you remember anything from your past, I mean that horrible famine [Holodomor] seven years ago?” my mother asked me back in 1940.“I do, Mom, I remember everything,” I replied. My...

The lives of historical figures who live or lived at the time of ruination cannot be easy and simple. Speaking about the epoch of the Ruin in 1657–76 we can see some convincing and illustrative...

Parents can often be heard complaining that their children find it difficult to study at school: there is a host of subjects, every year brings changes, the curriculum is too difficult, and you have...

The trial in Munich over John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Demianiuk in Ukraine), who was stripped of US citizenship and charged with complicity in the murder of 29,000 Jews in Nazi extermination camps, made...

Universities have been ranked according to established methodologies for over a quarter of a century (the first such rankings were presented in the US News & World Report I 1983). The past few...