№17, (2002)

The first days of the new Verkhovna Rada’s session showed that many deputies were unprepared for a civilized compromise: out of sheer fear of being dumped, they seem to be only thinking about how to...

Ukrainian politics has of late developed a language of its own and very specific criteria of political success. One person is an outstanding specialist in developing and implementing, so to speak,...

Students at the city’s higher schools study the Ukrainian language and literature at a special chair of the Mariupol Humanities Institute (MHI), and at the Ukrainian Studies Chair of the Pryazovsky...

One month remains before the decisive session of the international work group on the question of Ukraine’s entrance into the World Trade Organization. This group includes 43 countries, and if...

The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Art Museum ranks with the best at the Ukrainian capital. This time it has hosted Andrzej Strumillo, a leading Polish graphic artist. He received his basic professional...

We are all used to looking for a whipping boy. In Lviv, this boy is a legal entity, the City Council that reaffirmed its resolution of September 4, 2000, and which is in conformity with international...

Not so long ago, two researchers of antiquities in Rivne unearthed what they claim are “heretofore unknown specimens of Ukrainian national aesthetics,” products of an ordinary village blacksmith,...

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine admitted in fact last Thursday that it was unable to stamp out crime in the collection, recycling, and sales of scrap metal (in 2002, 46,000 criminal cases...

The never-ending scandals over infringements on the freedom of the press in Ukraine seem to have finally dimmed the sense of the very idea of journalistic independence. Scandals in this field erupted...

An international creative symposium took place in Koncha-Zaspa in Kyiv with the participation of American and Ukrainian painters. The coordinators and organizers of the project were Gale and Paul...

Vice President of the World Bank in Europe and Central Asia Johannes Lynn, has over the course of four days met with high- level government and industry leaders around the country, including National...

Not so long ago, the Catholic Church of Spain allocated one of its temples in the province of Navarre for the Eastern Orthodox believers for five years, rent free. The Orthodox community plans to...

Hindrance of the procedure of licensing enterprises, unreasonably high export duties, contradictions between established business rules – these are major difficulties for Canadian entrepreneurs...

Nina Smuzhanytsia-Marchenko is a laureate of the Olena Teliha International Literary Prize for “zealous and selfless work in the name of Ukraine, in compiling her son Valery Marchenko’s books Letters...

The Communist Party of Ukraine wants this country to transform from a parliamentary-presidential into parliamentary republic, reads the statement of the 36th joint convention of the CPU on May 26 in...