№15, (2000)

On August 5, 2000, the 320th anniversary of the outstanding warlord’s death, his skull, now kept in the Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum, will be returned to the crypt in the village of Kapulivka,...

The visit of Premier Viktor Yushchenko to the US last week should be called successful at least for the reason that it happened. On the other hand, it also turned out successful because the...

After socialism collapsed in Europe, the countries previously oriented toward the USSR began to face a most acute problem of modernization in the new virtually monopolar world. A distinctive...

In their analyses and especially in the advice generously handed out to governments, economists tend to ignore the fact that many factors that determine the present and the future of a society do...

Italy has set an absolute European record: it is forming its fifty-eighth postwar government. The resignation of the Center Left cabinet headed by former Communist Massimo D’Alema is being associated...

Last Wednesday saw a heated discussion within the Ukrainian political- energy elite about the mutual offsets by which the natural gas debts of the Dniproenerho Electricity Company had been settled...

Last year the number of persons leaving Ukraine exceeded the number entering by 44,300. This, as the demographers say, negative migration balance is basically accounted for by the outflow of...

Jacques Ellul once said about the modern world the everybody is talking and nobody is listening to anybody in it. These words might as well be an epigraph to the talk show “Dialogues about...

The following article will hopefully give the reader some idea how the referendum results have been evolving into a political football. (—Ed.) Leonid Kuchma has addressed letters to...

The warmer the sun shines, the more you feel like going to the beach. What is often on our mind is where to go this summer. Crimean residents think their resorts are unrivaled. The Russians...

“While I am chairman of the board, the state-owned stake will not be sold without investment guarantees. Otherwise I’m quitting,” Zaporizhzhia Integrated Aluminum Works Ivan Bastryha top manager told...

Who has not heard since childhood about the military gallantry of the Cossacks, the glorious Hetman Bohdan and his trusted lieutenants? Whose memory does not hold the heartfelt lines: “Hey, hey,...

More than three thousand works, ranging from figures barely the size of a thistle to compositions standing taller than a man, have come out from under the chisel of sculptor Oleksandr Koniayev, a...

The use of the Ukrainian language in classical music has been debated for years. The latest active attempts by the National Opera of Ukraine to stage new productions in the original language...

Wednesday evening. 46 Volodymyrska Street. A line of foreign cars at the building entrance. Presentable gentlemen in expensive suits and elegant ladies. The scent of fine perfume. Hip youths...