№13, (2011)

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...

Borders have always played an important role for society. Contraband, smuggled cultural relics, and drug trafficking have always been staple subjects for discussion. Nonetheless, there has been a...

The negotiations held on Thursday, February 24, between NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Ukraine’s top authorities showed that Ukraine was not going to slow down cooperation with...

The problem of animal protection, both happily owned and feral ones, is urgent. Recently there has been a strike by veterinarian who had been prohibited to use a specific anesthetic, ketamine, during...

He had to cover 300 kilometers to take a photo of an elk. He took 3,000 (!) shots to capture a squirrel standing on its hind legs. He wandered across the Volynian bogs to the point of exhaustion to...

Gabriele Zaidyte is the attache for culture in the Lithuanian embassies in Ukraine and Georgia. She regularly participates in the organization of the international literature and other art events....

According to the event’s organizers, PRT Communication Group and the investment group Avantazh Capital Management, Ukraine’s first ever investment salon will be held this May in Kharkiv. The...

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...