№17, (2001)

The latest reports from the Council of Europe say that the next debate on the Ukrainian question has been postponed until the autumn session of its Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). This gives Ukraine...

Ancient states founded by Greeks in the Northern Black Sea region played an important role in the development of peoples inhabiting what is now southern Ukraine. Close interaction between the Ancient...

The visit by the US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to Ukraine was significant for a number of reasons. It was the first visit, essentially an exploritory one, of a high US administration...

I am not going to deliver lectures to the readers about the critical state of the Ukrainian language in both Ukraine and the diaspora. The threat is grave: if the Ukrainian language dies, so will the...

Both Ukrainian and foreign analysts agree that the political situation in Ukraine is stabilizing with the new premier, and that the political crisis, provoked, among other things, by the cassette...

The signing of the NRU-UNR (Udovenko-Kostenko) unity declaration, at the Rukh convention on June 9, caused no public reverberations. Those who marched past Verkhovna Rada under both Rukh faction...

On June 7 Verkhovna Rada passed the bill On the Election of People’s Deputies of Ukraine by 289 votes, and two days later President Kuchma announced he would veto it on the grounds that it will limit...

The road to self-identification, to finding one’s place in society lies primarily through understanding one’s ethnic roots in our singular Ukrainian folk culture. Ukrainian folk cuisine is an...

Yuri Komarov, a Gazprom board of directors member, said at a press conference on the Monday before last that the re-export of Russian gas from Ukraine to Poland could reach 1.5 billion cubic meters...

According to agronomist Vasyl Lishchuk from Starokostiantyniv, he “taught one of his daughters to read at three years of age, his younger son at two, and his granddaughter Karina could read many...

Almost immediately after being appointed prime minister, Anatoly Kinakh met the ambassadors of the European Union countries in Ukraine. This meeting, he said, was aimed “at a frank exchange of...

Russian companies Sibur (controlled by Gazprom), Lukoil, Slavneft, Alfa Group, and UES Russia have announced their plans to expand their presence on the Ukrainian market recently. Most of these have...

Some half a year ago the bulk of domestic and foreign media did not pay much attention to Ukrainian politicians, and readers could learn much more about Russian, American, or Chinese leaders in...

Dnipropetrovsk has hosted a two-day Ukrainian-Polish economic forum under the patronage of both Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Poland and Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland. Among the participants were 1,...

For five brief days the population of Rome increased by 26 persons after the arrival of that number of Ukrainian media people invited to familiarize themselves with the techniques of arrangements for...