№2, (2008)

According to a 2006 survey, only about two percent of Ukraine’s young people are members of civic organizations or at least are aware of their existence. This is a staggeringly low figure, because in...

Co-Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs Richard Lugar is nearly the greatest friend of Ukraine of all the foreign politicians. He has been visiting Ukraine since 1993, therefore he...

In the past few years Ukrainian roads have become a mortal danger to people. Traffic police report that in 2007 alone 62,000 accidents claimed over 9,000 human lives and left 77,000 people injured....

Last Friday the International Center of Culture and Arts, better known as October Palace, hosted a recital by the Pikkardiiska tertsiia vocal group. The singers combined the pleasant with the useful...

Life never stands still. The world is progressing and placing new demands on the individual. Naturally, people are also making new demands on their state, which is responsible for their level...

Jan. 22 Day of Ukrainian Unity 1919: The Direktoria of the Ukrainian National Republic proclaims the reunification of the UNR with the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR) on St. Sophia Square...

On Jan. 16, 2008, the Cabinet of Ministers unanimously approved its draft program “The Ukrainian Breakthrough: for People, Not Politicians.” According to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the...

According to old Orthodox beliefs, on the day of Epiphany, the feast of the baptism of Jesus, all bodies of water acquire miracle-working qualities; those who have the guts to immerse themselves...

Last Friday was another wasted day in parliament. There were a lot of important items on the agenda, but instead of working, deputies were chewing over the NATO issue and, as usual, blocking access...

The Ukrainian fishing industry is in crisis. The share of “living silver” caught by Ukrainian fishermen is rapidly falling to one percent of the total CIS catch, while in Soviet times it was 23...

On Jan. 18, official Kyiv forwarded a letter to the NATO Secretary General, requesting the Membership Action Plan (MAP). Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Volodymyr Ohryzko, on a visit to...

COPENHAGEN — Writing at home sometime ago, with Wimbledon on TV in the background, it occurred to me that just as Britain hosts the world’s top tennis tournament but never wins it, so we Europeans...

Kamianets-Podilsky is an ancient Ukrainian city. It still has the same town hall clock that rang in the year 1884. But that year is gone and a new generation,...

A little-known period of teaching in a village school CHERKASY — In the life of Vasyl Stus there are two months in 1959 that are usually overlooked by researchers of his creative legacy, and thus...

Art shows have become a tradition at Ukraine’s State Department for Enforcement of Prison Sentences (DDUVP). It looks as though this state agency has decided to emulate the example portrayed in the...