№17, (2003)

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...

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,...

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 All-Ukrainian Black Gem Prize for Achievement in Fashion and Advertising awards ceremony took place recently at the Kyiv Expo Plaza. In the nine years that have passed since the first Black Gem,...

May 16, a one-man show of renowned Transcarpathian master of wooden sculpture Laslo Shyp was opened in the exhibition hall of the National Union of Masters of Folk Arts. Laslo Laslovych displays his...

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...

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...

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...

May 23 marked one year to the day since NSDC Secretary Yevhen Marchuk announced the decision to start the process whose ultimate goal is Ukraine’s integration with NATO. Throughout the past year,...

On May 22, marking the Day of the Ukrainian Language, the National Opera of Ukraine hosted the closing ceremony of the Third Petro Jacyk International Ukrainian Language Contest. This popular...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One of the culmination points of the Year of Russia in Ukraine in terms of politics was Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov’s visit to Kyiv and the first ever joint meeting of the boards of Foreign...