№17, (2010)

Continued from previous issue The linguists that were on stream, geographers, and experts of military heraldry were involved in the counterintelligence operation. There was even a job for those who...

Lina Kostenko is about to break her many years of quite telling silence — and with several books at that. The first one is Berestechko. Written in the late 1960s, now it seems to be prophetic. The...

It seemed that after the presidential elections in Ukraine the relations between Kyiv and Moscow should have become more pragmatic and brought concrete benefits to both countries. However, nothing of...

“The painful problem of the Ukrainian language will remain painful until Ukrainians seize full political power. I recommend young people to speak Ukrainian, to think in Ukrainian — this is...

Ukrainian ecologists should be greeted with the victory — for two years they have demanded that the country would protect wolves on the legislative level. Recently the President of Ukraine signed the...

Mrs. Holovko, you were the initiator of the new edition of Berestechko. How did you and your creative team like working on it? “Lina Kostenko and the Lybid Publishers is a separate page we dreamt...

1918: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) adopts a decree in Kyiv terminating the formation of registered “free” Cossacks. 1928: Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree proclaiming...

The first donor bank for cancer sick children in Ukraine was recently set up in Odesa. It is a database of people who are eager to donate their blood to little patients, reports Liha. Anton...

This soiree is part of a concert series dedicated to the memory of the renowned musician Bohodar Kotorovych. It will be recalled that the maestro is the world’s only musician who was given the...

Ukrainian artists started actively using the topic of spring in late 19th century. This was the heyday of landscape painting. The curator of Ukraine’s National Museum of Art, Anna Prykhodko, has told...

The world’s WBO, IBF, IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko beat the US Eddie Chambers with a left-hand knockout punch 12 seconds before the end of a 12-round bout. The American went down and remained...

Ukraine is purposefully accumulating the critical mass of knowledge and skills for a real breakthrough in the sphere of energy efficiency, with the National Agency for Efficient Use of Energy...

All eleventh-graders who wanted to participate in the first trial testing did it on March 13. They all expect that they will enter higher educational establishments based on test results. But the...

Bronek was founded by Valentyna Zabolotna, a notable theater expert and the granddaughter of the outstanding actor. Speaking about what was happening on that day at the Kyiv House of Actors, which is...

Ukraine’s singer to vie in the Eurovision ‘10 competition was once again — and seemingly finally — determined last Saturday: Olena Kucher (stage name: Aliosha) with her song “To Be Free.” She...