№15, (2009)

As part of the project Ukrainian Fashion Games in Peloponnesus, Greece, Ukrainian designers presented their creative views of Greece. Light and vivid images coupled with bright summer colors...

Dear Ms. Ivshyna:Perhaps nothing else serves to uphold a newspaper’s prestige as does its consistent, unswerving editorial policy. This is also true of the all-Ukrainian daily newspaper Den’,...

(Conclusion. For beginning see The Day No. 13 and 14)6. A BLOW TO THE NATION-STATEIt is an established fact that mass terror was the key tool for running the state under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph...

Building plans means making God laugh. This saying fits in very well with Ukrainian politics. Last Wednesday BYuT members almost vowed that parliament would vote the minister of defense out of...

May 26 1648: Cossack troops led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeat the Poles in the Battle of Korsun. May 27 1657: The Holy Roman Empire enters into an alliance with the Kingdom of Poland (Rzeczpospolita)...

On May 20, 2009, a historic event for the Ukrainian soccer took place in Istanbul, Turkey. For the first time a soccer team representing independent Ukraine won the UEFA Cup. Defeating Werder (Bremen...

As a kid I loved books about American Indians because these people were so very much like our Zaporozhian Cossacks with their love for freedom, mental sharpness, inbred understanding of nature,...

Theoretically, the period of the initial accumulation of capital should be over by now, as well as the kind of politics that typically accompanies it. Today most powerful figures in Ukraine...

Starting from the mid-1990s the world has been discussing the relatively new concept of a “failed state,” which means a dysfunctional state, a state that has failed to develop, a state in ruins....

I would like to assure you straight away that we have nothing against contemporary Ukrainian literature. Thank goodness, we have it. As for classical Ukrainian literature, it is no longer “cool” to...

This is the first time we are celebrating an anniversary of the unique 12th-century architectural monument located in the north-eastern part of Kyiv, in Dorohozhychi. The museum’s history started in...

“I often reflect on why mum is working in Spain and dad in the Czech Republic, while I am here in Ukraine with granny,” writes Olena Frankova, 11, from Khmelnytsky oblast. This is a quote from a...

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced that BYut will participate in the presidential elections. The news came at the open meeting of the government, which was called to address the problems...

In defiance of the claims that Ukraine does not have any market for organic food, the demand for organic products (grown without pesticides, genetically modified organisms, mineral fertilizers, and...

Adam MICHNIK, editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza and one of those “guilty” of the collapse of communism in Poland, told Kyiv students about the way his country has been shaking off the Soviet legacy...