№17, (2004)

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...

Last Thursday, Verkhovna Rada closed its session even without considering the items on the agenda. Early in the morning, Communist Party members plastered the presidium with a huge placard demanding...

Your previous visit to Ukraine took place on the eve of the presidential elections. This time, again, you came to Ukraine on the elections eve. Do you see any changes? I think the economic...

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...

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...

Program: April 28, 7 pm — at the Philharmonia: Berlioz — Overture “Le corsaire”, op. 21, Brahms — Violin Concerto, Op. 77, Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, op. 55. April 29, 4 pm — at the...

The week before last we buried the American scholar James Mace, a noble person and a friend of Ukrainians. Perhaps like no other foreign researcher, he did his best to make some tragic and horrible...

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...

“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...

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....

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...

1942. Presidium of the USSR Supreme Council passed a decision On Confering Commanders of Ukrainian Partisan Detachments Sydor Kovpak, Oleksandr Saburov, and Oleksiy Fedoriv the rank of Heroes of the...

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...

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...

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...