№18, (2008)

On Thursday, May 29, 2008, Ukraine marked the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on the state level for the fifth time. Key government officials paid their respects to Ukrainian...

Journalism can and must form values, no matter how dubious this idea may sound. Ukrainian society, which declared its goal to become democratic after leaving the post-totalitarian space, is in...

The 11th International Festival “Musical Summer Nights in Kyiv” has opened in Central Park near Mariinsky Palace, attracting music lovers who regularly come on their days off to listen to leading...

Every woman dreams of becoming a happy mother. When this miracle occurs every mother wants to remember forever the first days of her child. This dream came true for several dozen women in Ukraine and...

Last week all of Ukraine’s schools went through the last- bell ceremony. For the junior graders it meant the beginning of the summer vacations, but for the eleventh-graders — the start of the most...

The recent revaluation of the hryvnia will directly affect only a proportion of Ukrainian citizens: those who have savings. However, down the road the measures adopted by the National Bank of Ukraine...

The Ukrainian public is generally unaware of an important date that was marked in April 2008: the 85th anniversary of the launch of the policy known as Ukrainization. Its genesis is connected to...

The entry of any country into NATO is a kind of litmus test of its statehood, and one can convince the population of the necessity to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization only with the help of...

June 3 1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys arrive in Moscow to propose joint military actions against the Kingdom of Poland.1906: The first issue of the journal Ukrainskyi visnyk , the organ of the...

Dnipropetrovsk is not Ukraine’s number-one city, but neither is it number two. This maxim, which appeared during Leonid Kuchma’s presidency, was a favorite with his fellow countrymen, who would often...

“Reviving the national culture” was the slogan of the special days that were dedicated to our newspaper and held last week in Dnipropetrovsk under the auspices of our friends at National Mining...

During his recent visit to Ukraine, Afghanistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Rangin Dadfar SPANTA brought some good news: the president of Afghanistan will visit Ukraine this year. What hopes is...

It is not enough to be a good artist or a talented architect to participate in the Architectural Suite exhibit. The participants see both things as their vocation: educated as architects, they devote...

An interesting initiative recently emerged here in Brussels, which may be very advantageous to Kyiv and its future bid for membership in the European Union. The Polish government, together with its...

Ukrainians can moan and groan about the absence of a national cinema until the cows come home. They can champion its national essence by banning all languages but their own on movie theater screens....