№16, (2009)

Poland is ahead of schedule in its preparations for the 2012 European Soccer Championship. The UEFA commission recently visited Poland and Ukraine to assess the situation and approved the progress...

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...

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...

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has tackled the problems faced by peasants. She has held what she described as the “most important meeting in her life,” having gathered in Kyiv the heads of village...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

On the second day of the festival at the Cinema House in Kyiv we suddenly noticed that next to our stand we have an entire shelf stacked with original origami-style objects made by the visitors, who...

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 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...