№18, (2002)

The Ukrainian lawmakers finally received the Ukrainian president’s annual message on May 31 concerning the domestic and foreign political situation in 2001 and another message dealing with the...

The Kremlin’s relatively calm response to Ukraine’s decision to set its sights on NATO membership should not be misunderstood by anyone. It came on the eve of the Russia-NATO summit, not the best...

The drawn-out crisis of the Ukrainian filmmaking industry increasingly often compels domestic producers to make do with compromises. Strange as it may sound here, a film director must make movies,...

The visit of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to Ukraine, a founding member of the United Nations, was not simply out of courtesy, as was clear from the very topics discussed with the nation’s leaders...

Recently the Verkhovna Rada Secretariat registered the introduction of a bill on the national anthem of Ukraine initiated by People’s Deputy Volodymyr Leshchenko of the Communist faction. The draft...

The Fourth Kyiv in May International Festival ended in the traditional atmosphere of merry hustling and bustling and fireworks marking The Day of Kyiv. Lasting a week and a half, its finale is part...

Last year Bulgarians were warned about the possible implications of introducing visas for Ukrainian nationals. Signals of warning saying that the shrinking numbers of Ukrainian vacationers could...

Ukraine’s intention to expand cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Community voiced by President Kuchma has met with varying responses inside the country, although the head of state stresses (in a...

I could not help but say a few words after I read about the couple, an Italian pensioner and Ukrainian woman, who have settled in Khmelnytsky oblast. After all, I have been with my Ukrainian wife for...

On May 28, the day of Russia-NATO summit in Rome, Italy’s L’Unita published an interview with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma containing a number of fundamental statements. The new level of...

In the picture you can see the new leadership of the Ukrainian Parliament. 309 out of 447 registered members of parliament received ballots for secret voting. 226 voted. All the votes were for...

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has made public its final conclusions about parliamentary elections in Ukraine. After scrupulously studying the political situation in...

The Violence, Horror, and Pornography: the Problem of Criteria of Their Influence on the Juvenile Psyche round table was held on May 29, in an atmosphere of scientific precision and public emotion....

The election of the heads and first deputy heads of parliamentary committees came on the heels of a grueling race for the speaker’s seat. Yet, contrary to the laws of the genre, the second episode of...

(Continued from Nos. 14, 15) It was the sad lot of Kyrylo, Oleksiy Razumovsky’s younger brother, to be the last hetman of Ukraine. When Kyrylo moved to Saint Petersburg in 1742, Empress...