№14, (2009)

Lviv — Lviv has hosted the third annual book fair Publishers Forum to Children. This event, the only one of its kind in Ukraine and one of the few in Europe, is completely devoted to children’s...

Ukraine’s soccer season, one of the longest in the world, yielded quite a paradoxical result in the end: having become champions ahead of time, Kyiv’s Dynamo twice suffered defeat at home at the...

Clay is a simple but at the same time a very mysterious material. It has accompanied the human race for thousands of years. Nowadays people buy ceramics to meet their esthetic needs or for everyday...

October 25 is an unlawful date to hold the presidential elections. This is the verdict of the Constitutional Court delivered last Tuesday. Now the ball is in the Verkovna Rada’s court, and it has two...

An entire book can be written about him, but today three words will suffice: Ukrainian, Independentist, and Nationalist. He lived in the turbulent period from 1873 to 1924, but he remained faithful...

A commemorative plaque was unveiled in Kyiv on May at 19a Suvorov St., where Oleh Sytnyk, a prominent Ukrainian journalist, lived. Sytnyk was widely known as editor of many publications in the Soviet...

Among various events during the first couple of weeks in May, the “Faith and Love” benefit academic concert series deserves special notice. These concerts were staged in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil,...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has held a new public hearing to publicize declassified documents on the “Bykivnia Archipelago,” which the Soviet government had established to systematically...

Last Thursday President Viktor Yushchenko made a two-day visit to Switzerland, which recognized Ukraine’s independence in 1991. Today this country belongs to the top ten investors in Ukraine’s...

Cambridge — President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming the promotion of democracy a central focus of American foreign policy. He was not alone in this rhetoric. Most American presidents...

This singer ranks with the world’s opera stars who represent Ukraine. She is a soloist with the Shevchenko National Opera and the Vienna Opera. Her repertoire includes the leading parts of Rosina in...

The topic of the guilty and the World War II victims has been discussed for decades. In fact the tragedy is that it is very complicated to draw a line between these two categories. Ukraine, as well...

Bern — Commenting on the visit of Viktor Yushchenko to Switzerland, the local press says bluntly that the Ukrainian president came to Bern to ask for financial aid. But it used to be just the...

(Continued from previous issue)4. KILLING BY FAMINEThe reconstruction of killing by famine needs to involve thorough study of concealed details. When the death toll spells millions, there are always...

After a long-time “holiday marathon” it appears that one part of the country has failed to grasp exactly what we were celebrating. Many people, especially the young ones, celebrate the May holidays...