№12, (2006)

Of all the territories that were once part of the Polish state, Ukraine appears to be the only one that had an elite whose political culture remained on a medieval level. In those times, which were...

April is the month of the nationwide project “Sports Are Everyone’s Concern.” Between April 1 and 30 nearly 20,000 sports grounds will be tidied up all over Ukraine. At a press conference on April 3...

On April 6 Mutsuo Mabuchi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine, solemnly presented certificates for modern diagnostic equipment to Liudmyla Bondarenko, the head of the...

For a week dancers and choreographers from 15 countries vied during the 6 th Lifar International Ballet Competition. On Sunday the jury led by the noted choreographer Yuri Grigorovich passed their...

April 11, 1944. In the course of the Crimean Operation Kerch was liberated from enemy. 1995. The Council of Directors of the World Bank passed a decision on allotting a $114 million preferential loan...

Oleh Stukalkov’s one-man show, now on display at the Ukrainian Culture Fund, features landscapes. The artist is also a monumentalist, the author of books on architecture, a designer, and an architect...

On 12 August 1995 the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and its supporters unveiled a trilingual bronze plaque and installed a statue of an internee near the base of Castle Mountain, in...

Vinnytsia knows Oleksandr Honchar not by name but by his music. He plays his bayan button accordion on the street. His favorite place of all is a streetcar stop downtown. People are rushing off to...

Last week a group of students from the Faculty of Journalism at Zaporizhia National University, which is known for its progressive initiatives, visited the exclusion zone, the area surrounding the...

Three hundred years ago, in September-October 1705, the Kyivan Cave Monastery published the fourth and final part of the book Chet’ Menaion by Metropolitan of Rostov Dymytrii Tuptalo. This champion...

If a string of comments on the resolution the European Parliament passed the other day is anything to go by, Ukraine and the European Union have made a breakthrough in their relations. Yet the...

Listening to the fevered commentary that greeted the two most recent East European elections, you’d think the Soviet Union had risen from the dead. In both Belarus and Ukraine, the pundits fretted,...

The Ukrainian school of soccer coaching has had an excellent reputation for several decades. Ukraine’s soccer experts and their teams have won the highest awards during world and European soccer...

Channel 5 was the only television channel in Ukraine that broadcast free parliamentary candidates’ debates every Saturday and Sunday, starting on March 5. Ten political forces with the highest...

One day in April 1906, a man a little over 30 years of age was found hanging by the neck at a private cottage not far from St. Petersburg. Some time later tsarist criminalists identified the body as...