№13, (2004)

Ukraine’s first national newspaper Rada (Council) is a valuable source to study the history of our national renaissance, especially in the field of education. Its pages tell in great detail about...

A Ukrainian-Japanese cultural center, the first in Ukraine, has been opened in Dnipropetrovsk. As the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine, Kishiro Amae, said at the...

April 6. 1654. The Ukrainian embassy received from Muscovite Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich an acknowledgement of the conditions on which the Zaporozhzhian Host gave its consent to a protectorate:...

This year Ukraine took part for the first time in MIPIM, the largest international real state exhibition held in Cannes. This event annually attracts the world’s leading representatives of the...

Come April Fool’s Day, at least two-thirds of all Ukrainians rack their brains for pulling their friends’ leg, so as to have fun and not to incur their wrath. And it is true that April Fool’s Day is...

The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine will coordinate the activity of the central executive bodies on adjusting Ukraine’s legislation to the one of the European Union. The ministry ruled at the March 31...

Ivan Ohiyenko (1882-1972) is referred to in practically all reference sources as a noted Ukrainian scholar, teacher, ethnographer, cultural and religious figure, an individual possessing encyclopedic...

Early last week, the Coca Cola Company announced the results of its Who Inspires You? competition that kicked off on January 27 to select 42 participants of the Olympic torch relay in Kyiv. The...

Last Friday Kyiv’s National Ukrayina Palace hosted the All-Ukrainian Civil Forum in Support of the Constitutional Reform, a function proposed almost a year ago, on June 25, 2003, by the League of...

The International Monetary Fund has approved its annual Standby Program for Ukraine (until March 28, 2005) for $650 million. These funds will be provided only if necessary. After the Extended...

“But I’m not in the army!” — was the first reaction of Olha Chepkyna, a Valky, Kharkiv oblast, secondary school eighth- grader, to the news of her victory. “Still I am eager to join it,” she added....

A contest for the best composition commemorating Ivan Karabyts was held at the Gliere College of Music in Kyiv, as part of the Shevchenko March Festival in Kyiv. For over thirty years of creative...

Our Ukraine’s first actual mass action (previously elaborated upon by block leader Viktor Yushchenko for quite some time) started last Tuesday, near the cabinet building. It was triggered by OU...

United States’ representatives have become rather frequent guests in Ukraine. Ten days ago Deputy State Secretary of the United States Richard Armitage visited Kyiv; last week renowned...

Similar problems were discussed in late March at the international conference, Prospects of Development of the Domestic Industrial Goods Market in Ukraine, hosted by the Kyiv Shevchenko University....