№17, (2005)

The scenario of accelerated European integration, whereby Ukraine would drift away from Moscow and follow in the footsteps of Poland or the Baltic nations, is not adequate for the country’s size,...

Something has happened which no one has expected. For the first time in Ukrainian filmmaking history a Ukrainian production has won the Palme d’Or at the prestigious Cannes festival. Ihor Strembitsky...

In the course of agrarian reform and land distribution 70% of the ancient burial mounds of the nomadic peoples that populated the territory of what is now Ukraine have become private property. Many...

We know that until almost the very last moment the European Broadcasting Union and some of the participating countries were not sure that Ukraine could stage the 50th Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv...

This was by no means the first “NATO landing operation” in Donetsk: the North Atlantic alliance has notably expanded its dialogue with eastern and central Ukraine, shifting the center of gravity in...

May 24, 1991. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Green Party of Ukraine. 1995. During Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma’s official visit to Estonia a Declaration on Intensifying...

On May 27 the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater will premiere Ivan Kotliarevsky’s Natalka Poltavka. Last year the company’s artistic director Bohdan Stupka suggested the idea to stage the...

Sixty-one years ago the Crimean Tatars were deported from the peninsula. The same destiny awaited the Crimean Armenians, Bulgarians, and Greeks on June 24, 1944, whereas the local Germans had...

A lot of books have been quickly churned out about the Orange Revolution: documentary publications and glossy illustrated books (Kyiv’s Independence Square was a real bonanza for photographers). The...

The main lobbyists for Ukraine’s entry into the European community of nations are not state agencies in Eastern European countries but the average citizen. This was the principal message of the 10th...

The new exhibition by the well-known Kyiv artist Oleksandr Ahafonov, now showing in what once was a bakery in St. Sophia’s Cathedral, is called “Animus et Anima” (loosely translated as “a male soul...

His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent has paid a second visit to Kyiv. His first visit to Ukraine took place last year, when he arrived to take part in celebrations marking the 150th anniversary...

As of May 19 Ukraine is a full-fledged partner of the European countries determined to establish a single European space for higher education. The current conference of education and science...

(Continued from the previous issue) “ROYAL COURT”: A CONSTANT OF UKRAINIAN POLITICS L.I.: It may be said that during his first term President Kuchma acted as a pro-Russian politician and he was...

In early May the Odesa Commercial Seaport launched a one-stop border and customs service. Addressing the opening ceremony, Odesa seaport director Mykola Pavliuk said, “To organize a one-stop system...