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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 following article will hopefully give the reader some idea how the referendum results have been evolving into a political football. (—Ed.) The penchant for May Day rallies is coming back to...

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...

The joint project over which Bavarian and Ukrainian medicos have been working for two years came to fruition last Thursday, when a chronic hemodialysis division was officially opened in Kyiv’s...

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...

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...

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,...

Tennis is not as yet so popular in Ukraine as, say, soccer or boxing. But the Davis Cup match between Ukraine and Portugal showed that interest in this elite sport has greatly increased in the...

May 16: 1648. Cossacks led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky routed the Polish army of Stanislaw Potocki near Zhovti Vody. 1917. The anti-Ukrainian Democratic League of Russian Cultural Figures in Ukraine...

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...

Manager of the TOP-Service joint-stock company and Russian citizen Igor Shagin hired eight crimes against civil servants, committed from 1997 to 2000 in Kyiv, according to Kyiv public prosecutor...

“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...

The Ukrainian fine arts are currently undergoing a period of brutal commercialization. How many gifted artists who used to work to orders, including those from the state, have turned into...

Several parties are going to go all out in the Verkhovna Rada by-elections scheduled for June 25. The Communists, NDP, and Fatherland have already said they will nominate candidates in all or almost...

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...