№11, (2000)

The ceremony of presenting the Kyiv Pectoral 1999 theatrical award turned into a pompous three-hour show. This time, it seemed, the organizing committee was determined to stage a real...

A sensitive nation like the Ukrainians seems to need a Hero. It is desirable that the hero be handsome and at least not poor, for those who expect a fairy-tale want to forget their own hardships...

The Ukrainian Left is living through a trying period. After the epoch of “casting away stones” — traditionally large-scale election campaign promises, undisguised capitalizing on the electorate’s...

Vladimir Putin’s first meeting after the elections was with former President Boris Yeltsin. They met at Mr. Yeltsin’s dacha. “The second President met the first,” was television journalists’ comment...

The directors of the Energy Market Council said at a March 28 meeting in Kyiv that they do not support Yuliya Tymoshenko’s idea to deny regional energy (oblenerho) companies the right to sell...

With executive branch staff still to be cut, the government has decided on second thoughts to increase the number of bureaucrats and the fleet of cars. According to a resolution of March 10, the...

People were sitting on steps and standing in the aisles of the hall of the House of Teachers which hosted an evening in memory of Vyacheslav Chornovil. They had honest and lucid faces; they cried...

Many analysts have pointed out that the Constitutional Court ruling on the referendum posed more questions than it answered existing ones. Indeed, the CC virtuosi managed to arrive at a decision...

On March 25 the worldwide Greek community marked its greatest holiday. That day in 1821 saw the beginning of the struggle for liberation from the rule of the Ottoman Empire which finally brought...

Yesterday I saw an acquaintance of mine, once a talented photographer, rummaging in a garbage can. He was carefully looking for discarded bottles and food leftovers as his cracked spectacles kept...

At the end of March, the Swiss newspaper Daily Zeitung made public some quite interesting information about a new twist in the relationship between the Constantinople and Moscow patriarchates....

On March 30, the National Opera of Ukraine stage presented the young talents, alumni of the Kyianochka (Little Kyivan Girl) Cultural Center, a specialized choreographic lyceum of the Ukrainian Dance...

It is a strength of our democracies that even when a military operation is successful and commands overwhelming international support, many will question whether it should have been undertaken — on...

Ukraine can overcome its crisis only after its top echelons learn to sacrifice corporate interests for national goals. Every step forward humanity has taken was conceived and initiated inside a...

Leonid Kuchma said some time ago in his annual address to Parliament that an attempt will be soon made to legalize shadow capital: “It was impossible yesterday, is necessary today, and will be too...