№13, (2011)

For Woody Allen, life doesn’t imitate art; it imitates bad television.  Has modern art begun to imitate that medium too, emulating the accessibility and sensationalism of TV?  I don...

As before in the case of the Customs Union, Russia is now undermining the emerging Common Economic Space (CES) of its closest neighbors and partners, by trying to enforce an uneven balance of power...

There is a historic landmark on a quiet street in Yalta, formerly Leszczynski’s mansion. The ground floor hosts the exposition “Yalta: Culture at the Turn of the 20th Century.”...

On February 25, after a telethon, a historical meeting of four Ukrainian presidents took place on Bankova Street. The event lasted for 1.5 hours. The former presidents presented their ideas to...

1903: The cultural-educational Society Volia is founded in Lviv. 1918: A session of the Small Rada in Zhytomyr passes a bill instituting hryvnia as the UNR’s national currency. 1918: The UNR Army...

  Joint venture for satellite navigation planned  The Joint-Stock Financial Corporation Sistema in Kyiv and the Swiss company Leica Geosystems will cooperate in creating and operating...

Yurii Novykov, an original Ukrainian artist and Shevchenko Prize winner died a year ago. The master passed away in the heyday of his creative activity, and now his friends and family continue to...

The twelfth “Oxford Club” public debate, organized by the Foundation for Effective Governance and the British company Intelligence Squared, has recently been held in Kyiv. This time one of the most...

Today is the first calendar day of spring. Symbolically, it nearly coincided with the first day of Maslianytsia or Pancake Week, when people say goodbye to winter and welcome spring. This year...

At a time when natural resources are destroyed rather than preserved, one has to appreciate any government initiative aimed at taking care of our parks, forests, lakes, rivers, and so on. Not so long...

My Lesia dates back to The Days of my early childhood. From Lily. Lilies in grandmother’s garden and Lesia’s Lily were sisters in my childish imagination. Later I learned that this was...

The Ukraina missile cruiser was built in Ukraine and is 95-percent combat ready. Most likely she will be sold to Russia, as soon as a bargain is struck, said Russia’s Defense Minister...

About a month ago the Kyiv City State Administration announced an international contest for the best project on renovating the city’s downtown for the Euro-2012. In other words, Kyiv’s downtown...

  There are over a hundred thousand monuments in Ukraine: 57,000 monuments of archeology, 16,000 monuments of architecture and city planning, 51,000 historical ones, and over 5,000 objects...

First we would like to remind our readers that Bengali ranks as the world’s seventh language by the number of speakers. It is an official language in Bangladesh and in one of the 24 states of...