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Who is the author of the Ancient Greek alphabet? Who invented written Phoenician, Hebrew, and Latin? Historians are not likely to establish their names beyond reasonable doubt, ever. Yet most...

Ukraine intends to send a 110-strong special police unit to Kosovo in the near future, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs press center reports. The joint Ukrainian-Polish peacekeeping...

A workshop of Ukrainian and Canadian notaries public was held last week in Kyiv as part of the program “Reforming the Notarial Profession in Ukraine.” This major joint Ukrainian-Canadian project...

The sensation occurred at a court hearing in the case of Oleksandr Horobets, former chief editor of the Pravda Ukrainy, vs. the new management and what the claimant considered his unlawful...

Every state is fated — or at least we would like to believe so — to get in the long run a guide: a blind man or a true Moses, but that is another topic. Although the European Union has been...

“Ukraine could have ten national television channels, rather than three,” Valery Yurchenko, president of RRT Concern, declared addressing a regular meeting of the Ukrainian Media Association’s Press...

On May 23, the Minsk summit of the five CIS customs-union states revealed deep differences between Russia, on the one hand, and its allies — Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan which...

Registration of candidate People’s Deputies ended on May 25 to vie for ten seats in the special elections to Verkhovna Rada. Among those trying to get among the parliamentary Top Ten are such...

According to Volodymyr Lytvyn, chief of the Presidential Administration, President Leonid Kuchma can solve the equation called Resignation of the Crimean Government in at least two ways. The first is...

As is now traditional, Kyiv City Hall presented the populace with a variety of “specialties” — free burgers, chips, soft drinks — and all kinds of shows on the last weekend of May marking Kyiv...

Ukrainian’s have, with the rare but notable exceptions besmirching the historical record of most nations, seldom been particularly exclusive in their approach to who has a right to call this country...

A long line of Saturdays, each essential for the fuel-and-energy complex, has stretched from April 19, when the Cabinet of Ministers was to decide, in the President’s presence, the destiny of Vice-...

School bells rang for the last time this year last Tuesday also for nine graduates of the Grand Educational Corporation, Ukraine’s most prestigious private institution. Their teachers believe...

EFF crediting of Ukraine may be resumed following the conclusions drawn by the International Monetary Fund mission expected to arrive in Ukraine in the second half of June, i.e., if the Ukrainian...

May 30: 1876. Tsar Alexander II signed the Ems Ukase banning the publication and import of Ukrainian-language literature and staging theater productions in Ukrainian. 1923. The Ukrainian...