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Julian Berengaut, head of the IMF mission to Ukraine, believes it too early to discuss the terms of resumed EFF tranches. She made a statement to this effect after the meeting with the Ukrainian...

Lately, an event happened in Poland, which passed almost unnoticed, but was very important for the Polish society. Archbishop of Lublin Josef Zyczinski at a divine service made an appeal not to blame...

April 18: 1961. A demonstration of the faithful took place in Kyiv in protest to the closure of St. Andrew’s Church. 1996. Ukraine and Great Britain signed an agreement on mutual assistance in...

Whence comes the trait of one people or another as neatness and the instinctive striving for a clean everyday life? We traditionally take an exaggerated pride in our whitewashed country houses and...

On the night of April 12, 1945, the Soviet secret police arrested the leadership of the Ukrainian Catholic Church (now Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) in Lviv and Stanislav (current Ivano- Frankivsk...

US Secretary of State Madeline Albright’s visit to Kyiv was above all a demonstration of support for the government of Viktor Yushchenko, who has at least and at last started real reform. She did the...

Recent developments on Ukraine’s foreign policy front show that our state, as if with a wave of a magic wand, has turned from a failing student into a promising one. Foreign delegations come to Kyiv...

Perhaps the epicenter of Ukrainian political activities will soon shift to the regions. Presidential Administration Head Volodymyr Lytvyn, addressing a meeting of regional media representatives,...

Former Socialist Ivan Chyzh, as was to be expected, is now head of the newly-established Left-centrist party, The Justice All- Ukraine Leftist Association. His deputies are lawmakers Mykola...

Chronic nonpayment, broad usage of interenterprise settlements, barter, and promissory note patterns have left Ukraine’s railroads without working capital [current assets, to use the parlance],...

The International Culture and Art Center hosted the premiere of the film East-West. There is every reason to refer to the event as a significant one, even an unprecedented one. At long last the Oscar...

The question implementing the referendum results will obviously be the main issue in Ukraine’s social and political life for at least the next several weeks. In view of the Constitutional Court...

Ukraine and Poland have come out from under the same overcoat, the Warsaw Pact. Now the Polish Army has been donning the NATO uniform for a year, while the Armed Forces of Ukraine are going their own...

Ukrainian science is in dire straits and the research personnel is aging. These are perhaps the two most serious problems facing the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (Ukr. abbr., NAN), with the...

On April 13, journalists of the Lviv newspaper Express put up a sandbag barricade on the central square next to Taras Shevchenko monument. This unusual action called Wave of Freedom was caused by...