№14, (2003)

It is always interesting to hear a professional financier’s views on political and economic life, especially if this financier used to be President of the First Ukrainian International Investment...

Russia has again reminded Ukraine that trade wars never end and can only be suspended for truces and tea parties without neckties. Moscow has decided to impose a prohibitive import duty on Ukrainian...

On her way to our editorial office Liliya Podkopayeva was very nervous. The reason was rather banal but also quite important for every woman. She was convinced she did not look her best (despite...

April 22: 1918. The All-Union Central Executive Committee approved the text of the solemn pledge, first unified military oath. 1922. The Ukrainian Economic Academy was founded in Podebrady,...

Encyclopaedia Britannica reads that in 1648, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, whom contemporaries compared to Oliver Cromwell, “organized a rebellion among the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks and, with the support of...

Although our compatriots know almost nothing about the process of Ukraine’s integration into Europe, they favor integration into the European Union. This paradoxical information was made public April...

Last year shelters throughout Ukraine took in 30,000 street kids, either orphans or children abandoned by their parents. According to official statistics, the number of waifs begging has been...

Formally, the purpose of the summit in Athens was the European Union’s expansion eastward. Actually, it was to heal wounds inflicted by the Iraqi crisis. After signing an agreement on ten new EU...

Premier Viktor Yanukovych’s presentation of the cabinet’s action plan won 335 ayes in Verkhovna Rada, a record. Among those supporting it were the majority factions, those of the Socialist Party,...

The initiators of the World of Traditions Festival from the Whole World international organization believe it only a small part of their road home. They believe that one should start his/her quest...

The following is a sequel to a series of features on social services performed by Ukrainian churches, on how they help people in this complicated time of transition. The Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus...

Mykhailo Chechetov, the new SPF chairman, agreed the candidacy of his first deputy with the president. This week Leonid Kuchma is expected to sign an edict assigning the post to Oleksandr Bondar. The...

A debate is unfolding on the European Union’s future against the background of the historic Athens summit, where ten countries affixed their signatures to an EU membership agreement. Nobody doubts...

It is not ruled out that the failed April 17 vote on the Election Law signals a new stage in the ongoing Ukrainian political intrigue. It would be good, of course, if this stage were not too long,...

On April 16 an all-Ukrainian photo exhibition titled Woman, My Love opened at the Ukrainian House Palace of Arts. It displays 120 photographs by 97 authors from 19 oblasts, including Kyiv, the Crimea...