№18, (2004)

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s petulant remark of last year about “old and new Europe” was right for the wrong reasons. He meant it to refer to Europe’s divisions, but in May, ten...

The people of Rivne oblast recently celebrated the 99th birth anniversary of the outstanding Ukrainian man of letters Ulas Samchuk. Unfortunately, even today, in the thirteenth year of Ukraine’s...

The West is casting suspicious glances at Eurasian integration to which Ukraine is a party. The well-known US political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, who recently visited Kyiv, predicted in this...

THE PATIENT IS MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE There are now twenty-three enterprises of various forms of ownership licensed to produce televisions in Ukraine. Yet, most of them use essential components...

The October presidential election in Ukraine is critical to the future of Ukraine, US- Ukrainian relations, and to the very security of Europe. It is also crucial that all presidential candidates be...

The Fourth Kyiv International Fair Knyzhkovy Sad-2004 (Book Garden 2004) opened at the Ukrainian Home with due pomp at 11 a.m. on May 19. With trumpets sounding, it was announced that Taras...

On Saturday before last the winners of the Fourth Petro Jacyk International Ukrainian Language Competition were awarded prizes at the Ivan Franko Kyiv National Academic Theater. For more than six...

In the past these hunting grounds were the sole ownership of Serhiy Kivalov, leader of the Ukrainian Maritime Party and president of Odesa’s National Law Academy, who traded in his parliamentary...

Integration issues dominated a recent two-day seminar on Ukraine’s WTO accession in Pushcha-Ozerna outside Kyiv. This time, however, no dates for Ukraine’s joining the WTO were discussed, and every...

The news that foreign students are being physically assaulted in Odesa was first heard approximately a month ago, when hundreds of students attending Odesa State Medical University, mostly from the...

On May 19, Ukrtransnafta President Oleksandr Todiychuk submitted his resignation. After President Kuchma called off Ukraine’s special negotiator for the Eurasian Oil Transport Corridor (EOTC),...

This past week, Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee marked its tenth anniversary. In market economy countries this government institution plays a key role in ensuring adequate competition. Meanwhile,...

“This art, which is rooted in an ancient tradition, is interesting not only for the country where it originated. Since ancient times the Japanese have found an inexhaustible source of inspiration in...

Vitaly and Volodymyr Klichko, children of a war pilot, grandchildren of a military officer, first wanted to enter the Suvorov Soviet Military College, but both were destined to become world-famous...

The words globalization and antiglobalists have long dominated news reports across the world. Here and there one hears of meetings and rallies of people concerned about the total unification of human...