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After the national soccer team of Ukraine lost to England on Wembley, our compatriots, who had arrived to see the match, almost came a cropper in a big way last Wednesday. Ukrainian Airlines planes,...

Before the parliamentary elections two years [March 1998], political parties from the right, center and left began to appear like mushrooms after the rain, and the election ballots looked as big...

Kyiv Day is when you do not just walk in the street but do so loving this street, the houses and trees lining it, and the people walking past. You love them because finally you have the time to...

In any country the capital city is the center of gravity for monetary currents, topnotch specialists, and the latest political trends. The capital on one hand, is a catalyst, and on the other, a...

Last Wednesday, addressing the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Fuel- and-Energy Complex, Nuclear Policies and Nuclear Safety, Vice-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko submitted the draft law On Amending...

Ukraine and Israel are very different countries, but they have a lot in common. For example the Ukrainian Jews who leave for Israel. They carry with them threads of family and friendship...

Ihor Bilozir, a noted songwriter from Lviv, officially recognized as a People’s Artist of Ukraine, died in the emergency ward of Lviv hospital on the night of May 27-28 as a result of injuries...

The quiet miniature public garden in front of the Ivan Franko Theater became a small mecca on Kyiv Day, as a statue of a wonderful man, People’s Artist of Ukraine Mykola Yakovchenko was unveiled...

Everybody looked forward to his visit and the latter was promoted like an eight wonder. It was constantly on the air and front pages. The whole thing reminded one of Soviet publicity campaigns...

St. Michael’s Cathedral was consecrated May 28. The ceremony was attended by the President, Prime Minister, numerous MPs, ministers, and Kyiv Mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko. The rite was performed by...

As it has already been reported, World Bank director for Ukraine and Belarus, Luca Barbone, has arrived in Ukraine to discuss the further pattern of cooperation between this country and the World...

There is an ever-increasing number of publications reflecting interest in Ukraine’s past, and many of them have devoted articles to the Tereshchenko family, the late nineteenth/early twentieth...

June 6: Day of the Journalist of Ukraine; 1768. A people’s liberation anti-feudal uprising, referred to as Koliyivshchyna , began in the Right- Bank Ukraine against the Polish nobility’s yoke...

The President signed on May 29 the decree “On Forming a Commission to Draw Up Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine and other Bills Proceeding from the Results of the Public-Initiated National...

“We are building the Armed Forces to effectively secure our defenses and for enthusiastic applause from the West,” Ukraine’s Defense Minister General of the Army Oleksandr Kuzmuk declared in Kyiv...