№13, (2003)

The Kyiv Meridian Sports Complex hosted a contest in ballroom dancing for the mayor’s cup, Parade of Hopes-2003, with dancers from Ukraine and abroad taking part. A Kyiv couple performing in the...

Life is always more interesting than anything written about it. We are thrilled to “read” the world using some imperceptible signs in order to come closer to understanding it. We are attracted by...

Experts believe that mass consciousness in Ukraine is still under the influence of patriarchal stereotypes, which numerous public opinion polls confirm. For example, about 60% of women and over 50...

29,500 Ukrainians aged 18 to 25 are trying to evade the military draft, believes Anatoly Kobas, deputy chief of the organization and mobilization department at the General Headquarters of the Armed...

Unfortunately, the higher civilization rises, the lower falls people’s spirituality. By moving away from nature we lose our healthy moral beginnings and forget that a person comes into this world to...

The board has been disbanded for the banal reason of money. Today its doctors, lawyers, and forensic psychologists are out pounding the pavements, while the telephone keeps ringing from those in need...

Numerous portraits show this clever woman’s calm and confident face, unmistakably that of a person who knew all there was to know about life and politics, emanating cold inner strength. Precisely...

As children we were taught scores of instructive rhymes like this one, “This is a chair, you sit on it; this is a table, you eat at it...” It feels good to refute these truths one by one throughout...

The Kyiv House of Scholars hosted a most interesting concert by the Ricochet Ensemble of new music (conductor Ihor Nazarenko, artistic director Serhiy Piliutykov) called Time and Perception as part...

April 18-20 Ukraine will host for the first time the Kyiv Catwalk International Fashion Festival. Unlike the Fashion Seasons where the already popular Ukrainian designers display their collections,...

The name of Odesa-based Teodor Rezvoi became widely known in Ukraine and the world about a year ago when this courageous young man took a risk of crossing the ocean alone in a rowboat. Thousands of...

Not so long ago, Kyiv’s music lovers said goodbye, literally with tears in their eyes, to their idol, violinist Oles Semchuk, who reluctantly left for Italy to continue his career. But just six...

The month of photography in Kyiv is gaining momentum. Its speed is dreadful; pictures replace each other like in a kaleidoscope, leaving one amazed at the smartness of the organizers who have to open...

Almost 121 years ago in October 1882, the premiere of Natalka Poltavka staged by Marko Kropyvnytsky at Yelysavethrad’s Winter Theater, in which Mariya Zankovetska debuted, signaled the beginning of...

The Akvarel Gallery has opened the one-woman show of Vira Tomashevska, a famous Kyiv-based ceramic artist from Uzhhorod. Her works are canvases consisting of numerous intricate ceramic fragments:...