№13, (2003)

Political history is a history of men’s politics. Women occupy about 12% seats in the world’s parliaments, while the remaining 88% are occupied by men. The situation with the “women’s question” in...

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...

On April 11 the finance and economy ministries made a joint effort to explain to journalists the economic side of the constitutional reform proposed by the president, arguing that the reform will...

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...

Meanwhile, Monday before last the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine released a reassuring statement. Citing Chinese Health Minister Zhang Wenkang, the diplomats assured journalists that “the virus is under...

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...

As was to be expected, the clampdown on grain traders by the law enforcement agencies has slashed grain exports from Ukraine. Currently, grain reserves in Ukraine come to two million tons. However,...

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...

Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanov stated at Friday’s press conference in Dushanbe on the results of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) session that the global community...

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...

While anti-Iraq coalition troops exult over the seizure of Baghdad, the personnel of the 19th Detached CBR Warfare Battalion of Ukraine’s Western Operational Command, now stationed at Camp Arifjan,...

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...

We addressed this question to representatives of various factions in the Ukrainian parliament, who showed quite different attitudes toward Constitutional changes during the hearings. Their overall...

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:...

The place of honor on the wall of my study is occupied by a painting called Three Sisters, which I was given in 1993 when the Woman’s Community of Ukraine decided to name me their First Knight. It is...