№17, (2003)

The next session of the ministerial taskforce of the four prospective member states of the single CIS economic space has been slated for June 4 in Kyiv, Vitaly Lukyanenko, aide to Ukraine’s First...

It was reported on May 23 that Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland had discussed in Salzburg preparations for the June 22-23 Ukrainian-Polish Economic Forum to be...

On May 18 pupils of the famous dancer brilliantly performed Sleeping Beauty by PСtr Tchaikovsky at the National Opera of Ukraine. One of the latter works of the Donetsk Solovyanenko Opera and Ballet...

The Day continues the debate on the root and essence of the 1943-1944 interethnic conflict in Volyn which claimed tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Polish lives. In any case, one should neither...

Economics and politics have been uneasy allies in the process of European unification. From the moment Europe’s coal and steel industries were merged in an effort to prevent future wars on the...

When chestnut trees are in full bloom, the city of energy workers celebrates its birthday. Pivdennoukrayinsk with its 40,000 people, a satellite town of the most powerful energy giant of the Buh...

Volodymyr Korniev’s one-man show has opened at the Griffin Gallery. The master’s art is actually transferring to canvas the idea of Ukraine in the form of a set of symbols, images, and archetypes,...

People danced, bought food and drink, and feasted on the pyrohy [curd/meat/fruit dumplings, otherwise known as varenyky and to our friends in Chicago as perogies] all last weekend at the Spivoche...

Larysa Skoryk has always broken stereotypes, including her own. Every meeting with her shows her at a new angle as a politician, architect, and public figure. This time was no exception. Her visit...

An All-European Conference of Ecology Ministers took place in Kyiv on May 21-23. In his speech at the conference’s opening Leonid Kuchma said that Ukraine “cannot face Chornobyl on its own not only...

The US Agriculture Department recently published a forecast that Ukraine will produce 9.5 million tons of wheat, the most important food crop, in 2003 against 20.5 million tons in the current season...

Functions of this kind can hardly be called fateful. Nevertheless, the tenth Central European summit, concluded in the Austrian city of Salzburg on May 23, is certain to be recorded in the annals of...

Raising the question of the right of Eastern Slavic peoples to the old Kyivan heritage is a natural result of modern historical thinking, when the interpretation of history is the chief method of...

The UN Security Council passed a resolution lifting all sanctions from Iraq except for the arms deliveries embargo and establishing a legal framework for that country’s postwar structure. The...

On the 142nd anniversary of the interment of Taras Shevchenko’ body, returned to the great poet’s motherland in accordance with his will, another important event took place at the Kyiv Opera, the...