№17, (2004)

May 18 marked the sixtieth anniversary of Crimean Tatar deportation. President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, meeting with the Majlis leader in April, said he was sure the tragic date should be marked...

Looking back on his lifetime, Karol Szymanowski, an outstanding Polish composer of the early twentieth century, said in an interview soon after his fiftieth birthday, “I was born and raised in...

In early May, Odesa becomes the venue for the annual bodyart festival that draws hundreds of models and dozens of artists, who come to show their skill in painting bodies, while others still come...

Ukraine at the Turn of the Third Millennium. Contemporary Portraits. Such is the title of an exhibition featuring one hundred contemporary portraits displayed in Lviv for the first time as part of an...

On March 15 the Ostroh Academy National University hosted a roundtable to discuss the problems of the nation’s book publishers. Among those present for the discussion were Ihor Aleksiyenko and Vera...

Ivan Franko Theater’s premiere, Terry Johnson’s Hysteria (Ukrainian version by Tetiana Nekriach), attracted keen public interest in Kyiv. Staged by the prominent Ukrainian Canadian director Gregory...

One swallow does not make a summer, and one month of normal job growth and rising prices in the United States does not mean that the Federal Reserve no longer fears economic malaise and deflation....

Last week, Ukraine’s State Property Fund announced a tender to sell a 93.02% stake in Kryvorizhstal, Ukraine’s flagship steel mill, churning out six million tons of rolled metal, seven million tons...

Last week’s Cabinet meeting revealed discrepancies between the nation’s legislation and its political and economic realities. It has transpired that currently there is only one officially registered...

“Very soon the ride from Odesa to Kyiv will take three hours and one hour from Odesa to Liubashivka,” Odesa Rail Company Director Illia Levytsky stated with confidence recently. The Odesa-Kyiv...

Already tending a horse, two pigs, hens, rabbits, and a garden plot, Yurko and Sasha now want to purchase a cow to have their own milk. The two boys, aged fifteen and eleven, toil to make ends meet...

Last Wednesday, the parliament listened to the top officials of the nation’s uniformed services reporting on matters concerning the Mukacheve mayoral election, with Prosecutor General Hennady...

All those visiting Kyiv for pleasure or business usually look for landmarks they know from books (like Khreshchatyk or Andriyivsky uzviz) or city symbols (its cathedrals or Dnipro slopes). They bring...

The UN has an opportunity to restore its reputation as a world body whose voice is heeded and, most importantly, whose recommendations are implemented. The international community can now have a go...

Fate always gives a certain individual or a certain state a chance to make headway. If this chance is missed, the individual as well as the whole nation will eke out a long miserable existence....