№13, (2001)

Today the notion of reform calls forth a mixed reaction from most of the Ukrainian populace in a variety of ways. For nine years of our independent history it has been corroded by numerous assurances...

I was struck reading the interview with Halyna Triakina, the dedicated schoolteacher from Luhansk (Ukraine’s easternmost and most Russified) oblast, who with the help of such Ukrainian national...

On Maundy Thursday the central exhibition hall of the Ukrainian Artists Union saw the opening of a new exhibit featuring Oleh, Serhiy, and Oleksandr Zhyvotkov, all three excellent artists whose...

At the moment when the digital board in the Verkhovna Rada session hall flashed the figure 290 — the number of people’s deputies who voted for a resolution to consider the governmental performance as...

On April 18, President Leonid Kuchma has called on the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council to strictly observe constitutional norms, acting openly and transparently exclusively within...

The less than inspiring performance of Ukraine’s national team in the first half of the 2002 world championship qualifying tournament demands that the team achieve best possible results in the next...

After a big delegation of the Crimean Council of Ministers had visited Moscow, it was decided to forge more businesslike and concrete relations between the Russian capital and the Crimean Autonomous...

April 24: 1735. A Russian imperial ukase legally strengthened property inequality among Cossacks of the Ukrainian Hetmanate by dividing them into the select and subalterns. 1949. The State...

A one-woman show by prominent Kyiv artist Valentyna Chaikovska has been opened at the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra’s Nef Gallery. Called Formula of the Initiated, it is the artist’s seventh and in a way...

As the Internal Affairs Ministry public relations center reported on April 18, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Smyrnov guarantees that most underworld bosses will be taken into custody...

Figures of Lenin’s might do not leave hardly anyone indifferent. Anyone, no matter what his attitude toward the number one communist of the twentieth century, has his own vision of this grandiose...

Accustomed to seeing parallel processes unfold in Russia and Ukraine in a sequence from the big brother to, a couple of years later — the “little brother,” we do not seem to have noticed this...

Moscow. Vladimir Voronin, the newly elected Communist president of Moldova, coming to office after a classic landslide, visited the Russian capital, it being his first official journey abroad....

US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher has confirmed that the US Immigration and Naturalization Service had granted political asylum to former state security officer Mykola Melnychenko and...

Kyivans can now take a look at the surrounding world through the prism of art and past realities after visiting the exhibit called Decorative Art of the Peoples of the World (see photo), opened at...