№17, (2010)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...