№17, (2006)

The staff photographer and I arrived at a bad time, when director Mykola Mashchenko was mad as hell that the shooting was not going well. The pyrotechnic specialists couldn’t get their explosions...

Last week an intercollegiate student conference entitled “Prominent State-Building Figures” was held at Kyiv National University of Internal Affairs. Symon Petliura, Ivan Mazepa, Danylo Halytsky, and...

Another political entity appeared in Ukraine recently, the Coalition of Public and Political Forces “For the Dictatorship of the Law, Democracy, and Unity of the People of Ukraine.” The Web site...

As though in response to Russia’s gas ultimatums, the last one coming from Gazprom’s deputy head Aleksandr Ryazanov, concerning price increases (up to $120-130 per thousand cubic meters), Naftohaz...

Visitors to the festival have a unique opportunity to taste the best Georgian wines and cognacs. Georgian winemakers chose one of Kyiv’s most expensive clubs as the venue of their festival showcasing...

May 30 1876: Russian tsar Alexander II signs the Ems Ukase banning the publication and importation of literature in Ukrainian, as well as staging plays in Ukrainian. 1923: The Ukrainian Historical-...

St. Petersburg is a great place in early summer, when the “White Nights” bathe the city’s imperial palac es and avenues. Small wonder, then, that Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to show off...

In July Kyiv will host a Ukrainian-Russian forum on the post-election investment climate in Ukraine, following the agreement reached last April between Anatoliy Kinakh, president of the Ukrainian...

Unfortunately it’s a long way to a truly noble goal, and it takes a lot of steps. “Right to Joy — An Exhibit for Children Challenged by Destiny,” which just opened at the Center for Contemporary Art...

The title of the exhibit is “Acetone,” and the paintings are inspired by childhood memories of eating too much cream, a habit that can cause “acetone disease,” otherwise known as diabetes. The very...

A new organization has emerged in the post-Soviet space. At least its organizers wanted to present it this way, although it should be described as a somewhat altered structure of the existing GUAM...

The Day’s Library Series already numbers five books, and none of the publications have gone unnoticed. This was born out at a meeting with well-known scholars, who are members of the Academy of...

Poland has been a member of the European Union for two years and NATO, since 1999. Naturally, our western neighbor has accumulated considerable experience in the sphere of integration, which may come...

THE PRINCE’S FAMILY LINE AND MARRIAGE It takes a lifetime to forget cruelty. According to the chronicler Nestor’s Tale of Bygone Years, our hero, Prince Ihor, was an inadvertent witness to military...

Last Sunday the National Opera of Ukraine premiered Giacomo Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut. This is a joint Italian-American-Ukrainian production sponsored by the embassies of the US and Italy in...