№17, (2010)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The coalition of MP factions “Stability and Reforms” plans to establish the nonaligned status of Ukraine on the legislative level, which means Ukraine’s non-participation in military-political...

When the employees know the strategic targets of the company, they clearly understand what they need to do and what to long for, and thus the non-productive expenses are cut, while they reach success...

The 10th Paralympic Winter Games ended in Vancouver on March 21, with the Ukrainian team having shown a better performance than its Olympic counterpart, winning five gold, eight silver, and six...

LVIV — October will mark the peak of festivities for Lviv Opera. It opened on October 4, 1900, with the premiere of Wladyslaw Zelenski’s Janek, an opera about Transcarpathian highlanders in which...

The new Ukrainian government is barraged with reminders about the necessity of structural reforms in the economy. At the close of the last week, one of Ukraine’s principal international financial...

Here are fragments of Volodymyr Panchenko’s afterword to the republished historical novel Berestechko by Lina Kostenko (Kyiv, Lybid Publishers, 2010). The full version of the original Ukrainian...