№18, (2003)

During the May 22-23 summit of the heads of seventeen Central European states it turned out that Ukraine and Moldova have much in common. After independence, the two former Soviet republics made...

A photo exhibition dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian journalists Heorhy Gongadze, Serhiy Naboka, Oleksandr Kryvenko, and Taras Protsiuk was opened May 23 in the gallery of Kyiv’s Bukva [Letter]...

Kyiv has played a major role in the life of famed Russian ballerina Anastasiya Volochkova, currently a soloist with the Bolshoi. In fact, her victory at the Serge Lifar de la Dance in 1996 marked a...

On May 16-18 Kyiv hosted the Family-Child-State international congress organized by a group of lay Catholics, members of the All-Ukrainian Foundation for Human Dignity. The congress was attended by...

Ivan Ivanovich de Traversay was a man of an unusual, if not unique, destiny. The circumstances of his life can serve as a backdrop for a most interesting historical novel pivoting on the key...

Twice a year (on Kyiv Day and Independence Day) Andriyivsky uzviz gathers artists, potters, sculptors and other masters of the decorative and applied art from all parts of Ukraine. Passing on Kyiv...

An international seminar to define potential objects of world cultural heritage for UNESCO protection was held in the Crimea under the aegis of UNESCO assisted by the Crimean Republic Committee to...

The following is a brief account of how the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was first nominally independent and then completely dependent on the Moscow Church. It so happened that the independence,...

There are many reasons restraining foreign investment in Ukraine, but the major one is the unsuitability of the existing tax system to running an efficient business. This view was voiced on May 22 by...

May 26 saw the signing of a memorandum between Ukraine’s Ministry for Labor and Social Policy and the United Nations Children’s Fund Office in Ukraine, On Mutual Understanding and Partnership to...

The event had long been anticipated, for more than two years. When the V Pan-European Conference of Environment Ministers at last opened in Kyiv, the words of many of our compatriots (mostly members...

Friday, 30.11.68 Yesterday: surgery; subject: female, aged 35; repeated operation. First one 3 years ago; [diagnosis] mitral and right atrioventricular stenosis; insufficiency still there. [My...

On May 24-25 a meeting of foreign ministers of the GUUAM member countries took place in Tbilisi. This was a preliminary meeting before the summits first on the level of parliaments heads (June 3,...

May 28 saw the unveiling of the bust of Mykola Amosov in the lobby of the Research Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery named in his honor. The unveiling ceremony was held in a businesslike atmosphere...

On May 27 the oath-taking ceremony for a group of US Peace Corps volunteers in Ukraine took place in Kyiv. Seventy-seven Americans after finishing their three-month adaptation period in our country,...