№17, (2002)

A-House, Ukraine’s first long-term cultural relief and development program, was originated in 2002 by First Vice Premier Oleh Dubyna, Energy Sector Minister Vitaly Haiduk, and Presidential Advisor...

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...

The Securities and Stock Market State Commission is still besieged by calls and letters from outraged citizens trying to get their compensation and property certificates, commonly known as vouchers....

The issue of the world’s oldest profession well known to all was raised last Monday by a team of researchers from the Ukrainian Institute for Social Research, led by Olha Balakirieva, Candidate of...

Flowers are fated to carry out several functions in our lives: gifts, communicative (who, after all, has never solved at least one conflict in their lives with the help of flowers?), medicinal, and,...

Petro Jacyk was no romantic. In any case, he did his best not to look like one. He was strict, pragmatic, always extremely enthusiastic, hard to deal with, a ruthless and sharp-minded polemicist, and...

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,...

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...

Last year over 10,000 books were published in Ukraine, surpassing the boom of the late 1980s. However, in reality there are 4.5 times fewer books in the market now. Ukraine publishes less than one...

If you come to the banks of the River Ros on the outskirts of Korsun-Shevchenkove district in early May, you might think that all nature lovers, by a sheer coincidence of circumstances, have set foot...

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...

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...

Sometimes death is the only way to reveal talent bestowed by nature (or Someone else), for the man that had it lacked the ability of bringing forth his gift. Death tears off the shroud of modesty,...

The Kyiv Cinema Theater has hosted the premiere of Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones. Needless to say, George Lukas’s new creation is a true delight for all Jedi fans. The special effects...

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...