№17, (2005)

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...

HRYHORIY POLETYKA, CELEBRATED THEORETICIAN OF “AUTONOMISM” The ideals of freedom in the post-Soviet territories are more often than not associated with North America, although in our past we can find...

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...

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...

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...

The beach was bustling with activity as four dozen sand sculpture lovers from five countries presented their technically elaborate but short-lived creations. After schmoozing with the architects (no...

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...

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...

Skeptics of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration have said much about an avalanche of problems that the Ukrainian defense industry will face because of it. The success stories of Polish and Czech...

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...

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,...

No matter how often Vasyl Popadiuk tried to picture this meeting, he never thought he would be so excited. Would Richard recognize him? What does he look like today? Sixty years ago, in St. Poelten,...

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...

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...

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...