№12, (2009)

The White Hall of the National Museum of Russian Art welcomed Ukrainian painters, representatives of local authorities, and sponsors from various regions of Ukraine at the launch of the album-cum-...

If protest actions against the government lead to its downfall, it is a revolution, but if they fail, it is a rebellion. This is what the anticommunist revolution in Moldova ended up in. Now the...

1. KEY PHRASE FROM THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTOThe Orange Revolution gave an impetus to a generation change in government agencies, while 60-year-old politicians are being elbowed out by 40-year-olds....

“I remember a ringed stork that came from Africa; there were also birds from Romania. But our main ‘stork specialist’ Kostohryz will tell you better about them,” Halyna Mynai, the first person I met...

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, as they say. The story of Svitlana Tomilina and Viktor Vasnetsov deserves to be described in a novel. In June 1941 Svitlana, a student of a Kyiv school and...

Despite all problems, aesthetics takes a special place in our life. There might be a lot of people whose greatest pleasure is flowers. For florists and phytodesigners flowers are their main job...

In the past years different natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and violent storms have occurred worldwide with increasing frequency. Not so long ago the whole world was...

Information about an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people in 1932–33 keeps spreading and finds response across the world, as an increasing number of countries condemn the Holodomor. Naturally...

The topic of reviving the Ukrainian housing market is once again gaining momentum. The government promises to be its financial donor. Recently the procedures of such financing were formulated by the...

The phrase “Gogol is born” was used as a greeting at the launch of the exhibit of graphic works that are based on Nikolai Gogol’s (Mykola Hohol’s) works and executed by Serhii Yakutovych, a...

Hanne Severinsen, formerly the PACE rapporteur on Ukraine, has been an adviser to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for nearly a year. Previously, this Danish politician spent almost 11 yeas monitoring...

Three schools in Kyiv are soon to be named after such famous people as the Italian poet and public figure Dante Alighieri, the Ukrainian writer and civil rights champion Valerii Marchenko, and, much...

YALTA–YEVPATORIA–SIMFEROPOL — The Cabinet of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea recently adopted an action plan for the coming resort/tourist season. This document envisages free-of-...

Ukraine has given the world culture a lot of great figures who enriched other peoples’ cultures with their talent. Although Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is considered an outstanding Russian...

Japan is the example of a country that has modernized itself still preserving its national identity. Now the Land of the Rising Sun is in a not-so-good economic situation caused by the crisis that...