№14, (2008)

It was not until Myroslav Aronets published a monograph about the master painter Denys Ivantsev that his Ukrainian compatriots learned that Cambridge University had bestowed its highest award on him...

The results of the NATO summit in Bucharest are known, but like in case of every compromise, their final assessment is ambiguous. Let me start with Ukraine. The EU’s eastern neighbour was not offered...

April 18 will mark one year since the Ukrainian delegation convinced the UEFA leadership into holding the UEFA Euro 2012 championship in Ukraine. How is Ukraine preparing for the games? This topic...

This world is unjust. Sometimes I find myself thinking that scoundrels live long lives. James Mace died so suddenly, so prematurely. We miss his calm, wise words so badly these days. Prof. James Mace...

A nation that loses its dignity and because of this is incapable of remembering the difficult and costly victories that were achieved (and there are such victories), and which is fixated on defeats...

This year the World Bank held a fair of young people’s innovative ideas under the slogan “Choose Your Future Today.” Young Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Moldovans competed in the competition. Forty...

Yurii Shukhevych, the son of the celebrated commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) Roman Shukhevych, recently celebrated his 75th birthday. The younger Shukhevych, who spent many years in...

A scholarly conference entitled “Ukraine and Russia: History and the Image of History” took place in Moscow on April 3-5 at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The concluding...

Stanislav Suknenko’s new documentary Tetiana Yablonska: Inspiration of Solitude was recently screened at the Central Artist’s Building. The screening and a one-day exhibit of Yablonska’s pastels,...

These include Mykola Amosov, Stepan Bandera, Valerii Lobanovsky, Hryhorii Skovoroda, Lesia Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Viacheslav Chornovil, Taras Shevchenko, and Yaroslav the Wise...

The number of candidates who are running for mayor of Kyiv is growing before our very eyes — there are now over 150 aspirants. On April 10 the two favorites of sociological surveys, Leonid...

On rare occasions in politics, but more often than we might think, there are two contemporaneous and completely contradictory interpretations of what actually happened in a major political event. (...

On April 7 a photography exhibit called UNESCOITALIA opened at the Kyiv Sophia National Museum Complex, a collaborative effort on the part of the Italian Institute of Culture in Ukraine, Italy’s...

Fragrant primroses, a riot of green grass, and blossoming apricot and cherry trees are all signs that spring has come. The coming of the new season is especially enjoyable at the National Mykhailo...

Life is unfair to coastal cities in the sense that they are perceived as an adjunct to stereotypical southern entertainments. The city does not seem to exist beyond the resort season. Meanwhile,...