№14, (2010)

The crisis will end for sure at some point, GDP will start growing again. However, the loss of members of the Ukrainian elite (the real, spiritual one, not the political-financial one), is...

Dedicated to Vikentii Cheslav Khvoika, founder and pioneer of Ukrainian archeology. We mark the 160th anniversary of his birth in February, 2010 Kyiv – There are moments when life can be deeply...

What does Germany expect from the new President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych? Can the change of power in Ukraine affect the development of German-Ukrainian relations? Will Yanukovych’s announcement...

An exposition of 25 works by the ethnic Ukrainian sculptor Gregor Kruk was an important and necessary creative comeback at the Ukrainian collective consciousness that forces this consciousness to...

The last two days of winter turned out tropical hot at the Palace of Sports in Kyiv as passions boiled with the finals of the 21st International Dancesport Competition “Hopefuls Parade 2010” nearing...

Travelers in general, and those coming to Ukraine in particular, tend to fall into two categories: those who arrive with such a baggage of stereotypes that they will spare no effort to confirm them,...

1849: Bukovyna becomes a separate Austrian Kronland (crown land – the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and is declared Herzogtum Bukowina (nominal duchy). 1918: The Small Rada adopts the...

“Journalism is a broad notion. There is the journalism which informs us about the most essential things, the journalism which builds. And there is the journalism which grazes. It can be truthful...

Avigdor Lieberman, a Soviet expatriate (in 1978 he moved to Israel from Chisinau), has become an influential political figure in the State of Israel. He established the Our Home Israel party in 1999...

Kyivan by birth, the New York-based artist Volodymyr Davydenko is an authentic “Big Apple” poet. An interview with Volodymyr in New York inspired the “Cities and Places” column. Today we publish a...

Recently the presentation of the documentary about the writer and public figure Mykola Khvylovy King and slave of tricks was held in the National Mining University. The picture was based on the...

The UN system is represented in Ukraine by 13 agencies and programs which have special mandates. What tasks does the UN Ukrainian office have? What help does this international organization...

As the Vancouver winter Olympics went by, I browsed across the National Olympic Committee’s website every day in a hope to see that our athletes have at last climbed onto the podium and received a...

Ukrainian society has not even begun to think about “food culture.” Neither at state level, nor at individual levels do people pay proper attention to this issue for different reasons. We are busy...

Not thanks to wise and moderate state policies (which are blind to the legal needs of Ukrainian fashion and stubbornly wears Brioni), and despite political and economical turmoil, as well as a “gap”...