№11, (2002)

“Every word he wrote related to living people, present circumstances, and issues that somehow or other influenced the thoughts and feelings of the community he lived in. That quick and keen...

An event took place in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast a couple of weeks ago that made headlines and was almost the main topic of discussion at a space bridge linking ORT (Moscow) and 1+1 in Kyiv on Saturday...

One the eve of the Great Fast (Lent), Shrove Sunday, known as Forgiveness Sunday in Ukraine, as believers call, visit, or write each other, asking to be forgiven in Christ’s name, all wrongs they may...

The last stage of the contest Personnel Reserve: Ukraine’s New Power initiated by the SDPU(o) was held in Kyiv’s Teachers’ House. Launched to deal with predicted acute personnel shortages, the...

Located at the rayon’s end, the village of Dovzhky lies some thirty kilometers from Slavuta. One month away from her 77th birthday, Tetiana Levkivna Shelestiuk took long to open the door of her...

It has become a tradition to give closer attention to a problem which is fixed in a calendar date when the date draws nearer. So it was shortly before the World Day of Combating Tuberculosis. The...

The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine awarded a Honors Student of Education of Ukraine medal to adviser in pedagogical contacts of Goethe Institute Inter Naciones in Kyiv Ms. Gisela...

Last week the Mykolayiv local lore museum received a number of artifacts originally stolen from an archeological dig in Olvia, site of an ancient Greek settlement and now an archeological and...

The year 2001 ended with two events in the world economy that, although unconnected at first glance, are of the same origin. One event can be called successful: putting the euro into cash turnover as...

Geographical factors are among those affecting the shaping of nation and state building. To the Ukrainians, it was their country’s location toward the end of the great Eurasian steppe route, starting...

Their permanent balance and boring caution even in the most extreme situations is so predictable that most of them are thought of as absolutely free from adventure and commonplace. They are so...

A one man show featuring artist Volodymyr Holovanov (1924-1990) has opened at Children’s Arts Academy in Obolon. Volodymyr Holovanov was primarily a watercolorist, but an unusual one. He boldly...

Volodymyr Shpudeiko says, “I’m a patriot.” Nowadays, with everybody having become ever so patriotic, often using it as a front for getting the biggest cut in the pie, his words do not sound like some...

David Sharashidze’s one man show recently opened in the hall at the Actors’ House seems a harmonic part of Kyiv background: no radical perturbations and at the same time rather elegant. It is a...

The Ukrainian national soccer team played its latest match even worse than the previous one. After a narrow defeat at the hands of the Japanese national team, our squad’s managers explained to...