№15, (2001)

Valentyn NETUDYKHATA, culture studies specialist: “In my opinion, Europe begins with national mentality. In this respect, Ukrainians differ from other Europeans (Germans, Frenchmen, Englishmen,...

Now, 56 years after the end of World War II, events of that stormy period remain subject to numerous scholarly historical studies. One of the most pressing issues drawing debate on the pages of quite...

The Naftohaz Ukrayiny National Joint Stock Company (do not let the name fool you: the state owns it, but it takes stock in “private” companies; could we call this de-privatization?) intends to...

The Ukrainian government extended the personnel limit of ministries, other central executive bodies, and their subordinate regional bodies of government by 1452 persons. The personnel limit was among...

In light of the latest Rukh congress, regarded by many as a conservative victory within the popular movement, and Viktor Pynzenyk’s statement about a congress unifying Reforms and Order (PRP) and...

On May 15, the Supreme Court board has confirmed the ruling by the Pechersk District Court freeing Yuliya Tymoshenko from jail. Let it be recalled that (according to the Prosecutor General’s Office)...

The premier’s candidacy, agreed among Verkhovna Rada factions, could be submitted today. Or maybe not, as many point out ambiguously that the new premier could be appointed “before the end of the...

It is always interesting to watch our people’s deputies in Verkhovna Rada deal with matters relating to lawgivers. One such matter is the bill on proportional parliamentary elections vetoed by the...

May 17 witnessed several simultaneous actions of protest staged in front of Verkhovna Rada. Some 200 members of the All-Ukrainian Union of Workers, Communist Party, and Zubr Association gathered in...

May 22: 1861. Taras Shevchenko’s body was reburied at the Chernecha (Monk’s) Hill in Kaniv. 1940. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR ratified a decision on establishing insignia for...

The already customary pipe and confectionery fronts in the Russo- Ukrainian trade war have now been supplemented with salt. This fully meets the forecasts of some Ukrainian experts who claim that we...

On May 13 the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal Liubomyr Huzar, consecrated the construction of a new cathedral. The residence of the UGCC is to be in Kyiv. This event was...

Three consecutive scandals in the past month over the debt recovery privatization of state-run enterprises has forced this country’s leadership to deal with this problem. President Leonid Kuchma has...

It appears that any attempt to put a full stop in the case of the murdered journalist Heorhy Gongadze ends up with this full stop turning into a question mark. Last Tuesday, Ukrainian Minister of...

Ukraine has been unlucky in its modern history, having gone through such traumas as a ban on its very language in the late nineteenth century, three manmade famines in the twentieth, the destruction...