№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...

At the mid-april, General Director of AvtoZAZ-Daewoo Wang Yang Nam read out the journalists an official petition of the DAEWOO-Motor Corporation management regarding the Cabinet’s order, which...

A chewing gum factory, the first of its kind in Ukraine, has been opened in Illichivsk. It is a private company with 90% Ukrainian capital. Town Mayor Valery Khmelniuk, who was present at the...

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...

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,...

The IV International Serge Lifar de la Dance Ballet Festival, which presented the choreography lovers with two wonderful evenings of the feast of the dance, is over now. The gaudy...

The pictures made by well-know photographers Oleksandr Hliadielov and Vyacheslav Mayevsky portray nine of our compatriots, while the terse texts accompanying the exhibits explain the logic of the...

We have a rare chance to acquire, and make it a museum, the world- famous collection of theatrical painting executed by Prince Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky, a descendent of Kyiv’s Riurik Dynasty...

Verkhovna Rada has recalled four of its members from the National Television and Radio Council. The preliminary political agreement on the appointment of new candidates and the revocation of the...

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...

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...

Usniye Seitosmanova, shown in the photograph, after returning from the place of deportation, built with her family a house in the hamlet of Kamenka and for nine years has been using water which...

“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...

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...

The speech Mykola Azarov, chairman of the State Tax Administration, made at the session of the Coordinating Committee to Combat Organized Crime and Corruption last Thursday seems to portend a certain...