№12, (2007)

Olha Shevchenko’s article appears below in a slightly abridged version. Readers are invited to submit their opinions. Three years ago the Taras Shevchenko Museum closed for repairs. The question of...

Grass bent before His feet and small stones rolled to the side of the path. A little gray bird perched on His shoulder was chirping something in His left ear. The day was unfolding; wherever He...

Tonight the delegation of the organizing committee of the joint Ukraine-Poland project to host the Euro 2012 soccer finals will present its bid at a special session of the UEFA Executive Committee in...

What did President Nursultan Nazarbaev of Kazakhstan mean when he said that Ukraine’s elected president can no longer guarantee stability of the state? What is Astana’s attitude to the current face-...

In the past few days President Viktor Yushchenko must have been brimming with things to say. Opening his quarterly press conference, he delivered a 40-minute speech with this opening line: “I would...

On his birthday, April 15, director Roman Balaian began shooting a new film tentatively called The Chosen One , a wonderful boon to himself and the many film buffs who respect his work. He is not one...

Apr. 17 1710. Pylyp Orlyk, the creator of one of the first European constitutions, was elected the hetman of Ukraine. Apr. 17 1924. The All-Ukrainian Excecutive Committee (VUCVK) approved the...

It looks as though the megabloc of all democratic forces is not going to work. Judging by everything, the Orange people will march into the elections in three separate columns. This is the best...

In recent days Ukraine has been celebrating the 125th anniversary of Viacheslav Lypynsky’s birth. Lypynsky was a prominent Ukrainian political theorist, ideologist, sociologist, historian, and public...

The Bush administration has once again cited Ukraine on a list of 15 countries cooperating with the U.S. in regard to its national missile defense system. “Today, 15 countries (including nine in NATO...

On April 14-15, the Day of the Plast Oath, part of the celebrations of the 95th anniversary of the founding in Lviv of Plast, Ukraine’s oldest scout organization, was widely celebrated. On April 12,...

For the first time ever Kyiv will host the International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz. The name of our legendary compatriot, who graduated from the Kyiv Higher Music...

Symferopol — The Supreme Council of the Crimea has adopted an action plan for 2007-08 to commemorate the 650th anniversary of the Armenian monastery complex of Surb-Khach (Holy Cross) located near...

Kyiv will host the Portal International Science Fiction Assembly simultaneously with the Second Spring International Book Fair. The congress received international status last year, when...

Last Thursday the heroes of the 2006 sports year were honored at Kyiv’s International Center for Culture and Arts. The victors were named in a secret vote held at the Ukrainian Sports Academy whose...