№14, (2000)

Perhaps even the wisest sage could be led of astray by the question of whether it is worthwhile renaming all those objects around us that bear Soviet names. In all probability, the answer cannot...

On April 16 the Presidents of Russia and Belarus conferred behind closed doors. When they finally faced the media, an hour later than expected, they declared that whatever remained of the...

As an old Sovietologist I could not resist commenting on Maryna Zamyatina’s musings about the central role Lenin (and once upon a time Stalin) played in the moral universe of people being brought up...

In 1656, Turkish traveler Elvia Celebi arrived in Oziu, known as Ochakiv in the history, an important center of the Ottoman Empire on the Black Sea northern littoral. What caught his eyes were its...

April 25: 1945. Ukraine joined the UN as a founding member. 1994. The President of Ukraine decreed the establishment of the National Television and Radio Council. April 26: 1986. An accident...

The results of the government’s performance have been summed up since the first days of April. The reason for this “statistically-confirmed” activity is, on the one hand, one hundred days of the...

Every profession has its own elite. The influence of such an elite is especially strong in the fashion industry. For it is actually a relatively narrow circle of experts that decides what kind of...

For French television, the Ukrainian referendum did not exist. Developments in Ukraine do not make front page news in Western papers, except Financial Times , which conscientiously informs its...

Vladimir Putin, who had just made a pre-inauguration tour of Europe and hence not yet shed the title acting president (at any rate, the official documents still featured this phrase), said in...

On April 15, spectators at the National Opera of Ukraine witnessed the revival of The Secret Marriage, a comic opera by popular Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa. On the Ukrainian stage,...

Today we continue our discussion of the language situation in Ukraine by publishing one more viewpoint, which might be conditionally called pragmatism. Really, is it worth it to spend time and...

When a region lacks money, it is better not to take out loans but to attract investment. If this applies to the Crimea, the answer to the question where to channel investments is crystal-clear:...

“On April 11, 2000, at 1:27 a.m., in Kyiv, on General Vatutin Avenue (Dnipro District), two cars, a Mercedes-300 and Peugeot-405, collided, resulting in an accident which left four dead. It...

If I were a serious man, say, a columnist for the newspaper Krasnaya zvezda (Red Star, published by the Russian Ministry of Defense —Ed.), I would write with special inspiration about the visit...

Apart from Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Kyiv hosted another ranking British guest in April, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Queen’s Counsel, member of the House of Lords and Chair of the British...