№13, (2011)

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...

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.”...

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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...