№12, (2004)

“Ukraine is prepared to enter a new qualitative phase in its cooperation with NATO,” Deputy Foreign Minister Oleh Shamshur said on March 23. The Istanbul summit is scheduled for April, yet Kyiv is...

Every collection by Lviv-based designer Oksana Karavanska is like materialized Hutsul music, myths, and legends. However, Oksana finds inspiration not only in the Carpathians, but also the Balkans,...

Vasyl Kapustian is Director of the Botanical Garden in downtown Kyiv (named for Academician Fomin and popularly known as the Old Garden). His surname literally means Cabbage Grower. Without digging...

As you know, after World War I Zakarpattia, an ancient Ukrainian region that had been under Hungary for almost a thousand years — Ed.), was ceded under the 1919 Peace Treaty of Saint-Germain to the...

On March 31, the National Opera of Ukraine will host the famed St. Petersburg Ballet Theater’s show Russian Hamlet directed by Boris Eifman. Today his theater, whose repertoire list includes...

The Griffon Gallery hosts Kateryna Sendetska’s one-woman show under a poetic and promising title, Names of the Runes. The exhibition displays batiks by the young Kyiv-based artist. Names of the...

Such is the truly French title of this comprehensive and multigenre festival that will last throughout April in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk. Without doubt this...

Kyiv Operetta has hosted the Third Yednist (Unity) International Jazz Festival commemorating noted musician Volodymyr Symonenko. It is a large, stable, life-asserting project rallying jazzmen from ex...

Old productions are falling in decay, their titles disappearing from billboards, and few new ones appear. Contemporary compositions could put on record as rarities. A number of scores are shelved...

OVERCOMING THE DUALISM OF POWER Back on their home turf, the Crimean Tatars have discovered a clear dualism in the Crimean system of power: the system of the Majlis, officially known as the...

There are 14,000 of what we call Gypsies in Transcarpathian oblast today. Yet, they prefer to call themselves and expect others to address them as Roma. Incidentally, their number in the region has...

Soon after Ukraine won its independence in 1991, the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto launched its Canadian-Ukrainian Parliamentary Program. Since then over 300 Ukrainian...

Public finances is the art of passing moneyfrom one hand to another until it vanishes Robert SARNOFF, RCA president The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) opposes combining national and local budget...

March 25 was the twelfth anniversary of the creation of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). In recent years the Security Service, a vital institution in any state, has repeatedly stirred...

Polls show that people living in the post-Soviet states in the late twentieth century feared most the death of their near and dear, famine, and riots. In the early 21st century, it is poverty,...