№16, (2009)

Warsaw — The 20th anniversary of winning freedom after the fall of communism in Central Europe will be celebrated in Krakow on June 4. It will be an opportunity for all Europeans to think once again...

Olha Seniuk’s Ukrainian translation of Poltava by the Swedish author Peter Englund will be published in Ukraine in conjunction with the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. Seniuk was born in...

Last weekend the residents and guests of Kyiv again marked Kyiv Day. Some were celebrating and some were lamenting the lost green areas, the disfigured landscape of the old city, and the library,...

June 2 1990: The 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of the Union of Independent Ukrainian Youth is convened. June 3 1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys arrive in Moscow to propose joint military actions...

A leader or a ruling clique determines not only the future but also the past. “If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’ — well, it never happened. If he says that two and two...

Despite the fact that the MPs have not yet decided on the date of the presidential elections, the electioneering wave has de facto swept across Ukraine. Politicians of different colors and calibers...

In the past two weeks President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and MPs have spoken on better conditions for entrepreneurs, and parliament has started voting through the much-...

In time of crisis, when most Ukrainians have to tighten their belts and cut down on their expenditures, Ukraine continues to live beyond its means. The Ukrainian cabinet appears to have found the...

Last week Radio Svoboda (radiosvoboda.org) interviewed Yevhen Marchuk, who was the first head of the post-independence Security Service of Ukraine, Prime Minister in 1995–96, Secretary of National...

The premiere of the art project entitled “Noble Vechornytsi: Ukrainian High Style” is scheduled to take place in the Ball Room of the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel on June 3. Tetyana Mironova’s gallery...

The amazing town of Lokhvytsia in the Poltava region… This legendary place is crowned with Cossack glory and war- and peacetime exploits of many generations. Sylvestr Kosiv, Ivan Mazepa, and Petro...

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Winston Churchill There seems nothing more important for the Russian government than correct interpretation...

Last Sunday the Russian Information Agency Novosti published an interesting news item about the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril consecrating the tombstones on the graves of the Russian...

SIMFEROPOL — The First World Congress of the Crimean Tatars (WCCT) ended after the delegates from 162 ethnic organizations in 12 countries adopted a declaration establishing the congress’ status as...

It is hard to say precisely what kind of relationships the well-known peasants’ otaman Nestor Makhno had with the communists, because they were much too complicated and contradictory. On the one hand...