№13, (2007)

President Viktor Yushchenko is prepared to suspend his edict dissolving the Verkhovna Rada of the fifth convocation. He has agreed to do this in return for a package of political compromises,...

“Promised Land” is the name of an art show dedicated to Israel’s Independence Day, which opened on April 18 at the Art Foxtrot Gallery. The exhibit is the brainchild of Alla Revenko, who heads the...

Up to the last moment few people believed that Ukraine would win the bid to host the Euro 12 finals. The statements of top government officials, who declared that the Ukrainians and Poles were...

Last year nearly 332,000 tons of fish were imported into Ukraine, an increase of 80,000 tons. Norway and Island are Ukraine’s main suppliers of herring fillets. The US, Canada, and Argentina supply...

April 23 1919: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree whereby all private schools and institutions of higher learning are to be financed by the central...

The 3rd Kontakt International Documentary Film Festival, named in honor of Larysa Rodnianska, is occupying an increasingly important place in Kyiv’s cultural calendar. This year’s festival is taking...

What is the Kremlin’s assessment of the first visit to Russia of Ukraine’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs Arsenii Yatseniuk? What does Moscow think about the initiatives that the Ukrainian minister...

Organizing an effective social partnership among hired workers, the state, and business is one of the most serious problems in our country. None of the parties are hearing, let alone listening to...

Contact, the international festival of documentary cinema held at Kyiv’s Zhovten cinema, featured a special program consisting of two films from Jerzy Hoffman’s four-part series entitled Ukraine:...

The November 1930 Polish uprising rippled across Right-Bank Ukraine, causing a radical change in the imperial government’s policy toward the nobility, the majority of which was in opposition to...

Viacheslav Igrunov, the director of the International Institute of Humanitarian-Political Studies, was a member of Russia’s State Duma during three convocations (1993-2003.) He is also a regular...

The solo show of works by the famous Brazilian mixed-media artist Vik Muniz, called Vik Muniz: Expertise, has opened at the PinchukArtCentre Gallery in Kyiv. On display are 50 works created in 1997-...

SYMFEROPOL-Lake Donuzlav can only be described as a long- suffering ecological site. Its history is packed with dramatic events. Since the lake has a depth of 20 meters, in the first half of the 20th...

A visit to the theater is always a grand occasion. There is a lot of light, the gilded hall glows for the spectators. There is great music, a well-heeled audience, and flowers. The theater is a...

Our life is ruled by ideas. Among the greatest inventions believed to have changed the course of human progress are the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany; the pencil (Konrad...