№11, (2008)

The Ukrainian government seems to be learning from its mistakes and pursuing a more transparent foreign policy. Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko have sent...

It saddens me to see the gradual escalation of anti-American moods in Ukraine. I wonder why some of my fellow Ukrainians don’t bother to figure out where the wind is blowing and who can benefit...

The Rivne Oblast Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater hosted The Day’s photography show from Feb. 4 until March 20. Among the organizers were the local photographers and past prize winners Anatolii...

The latest polls show that Ukrainians are the unhappiest people in Europe, and they have the shortest average life span. Experts have also determined that people who make long-term plans (e.g., stock...

Between March 3 and 28 Geneva is hosting the 7th session of the UN Human Rights Council. Last Tuesday the council’s plenary meeting heard a report by the special rapporteur Ambei Ligabo on freedom of...

American lawmakers believe that Ukraine has a democracy that is as strong and thriving as their own. This is the opinion of the co-founders of the House Democracy Assistance Commission and precisely...

For many people Lina KOSTENKO embodies an alternative, the real Ukraine — that dimension and system of coordinates from which, lamentably, a large part of our society is retreating. As a...

March 25 1993: The National Central Interpol Bureau is founded in Ukraine. 1994: Ukraine and Russia sign a 10-year cultural cooperation agreement. March 26 1919: The Supreme Soviet of National...

This year Ukrainian Fashion Week broke with its 10-year tradition of having Ukraine’s leading designer Lilia Poustovit open the fashion show season with her clothing collection. Instead, the latest...

The release of the annual report compiled by the Development of Ukraine Charitable Foundation was a remarkable occasion, and not just because some well-known politicians, businessmen, and public...

Ukrainian academics first decided to produce a national atlas in 1992. But they had to postpone this work because of the unstable political situation. Scholars at the National Academy of Sciences of...

March 22 marked the 70th anniversary of the birth of Viktor Zakharchenko, the artistic director of the Kuban State Academic Cossack Choir that will be touring Ukraine in April. Zakharchenko is a...

The Ukrainian leadership is very perturbed by the death of a Ukrainian member of the UN police force and the wounding of 20 others who were taking part in the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. This...

Ukraine will be actively combating poverty in order to meet European standards in the social sphere. This was announced by Ukraine’s Minister of Labor and Social Policy Liudmyla Denysova in Vienna at...

At the very edge of the steep bank of the alpine Cheremosh River near Kuty, in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, stands a run-down two-story structure without windows and doors. It is a gathering place for...