№2, (2008)

In Mukachiv last Monday, President Viktor Yushchenko once again focused attention on the need to speed up preparations for the 2012 European soccer championship. “I would like to send a distress...

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...

There is a long-standing dictum that artistic works of a truly high level, including literature, offer the possibility to see a future path along which History itself will soon advance and to discern...

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...

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...

Young families have received a nice present from the government. Starting on Jan. 1, 2008, assistance with birth costs for a first child is 12,240 hryvnias and for a second — 25,000. For a third and...

This year’s series of Jazz-kolo concerts, the brainchild of well-known jazzman and bass guitarist Ihor Zakus and the head of the Kyiv-based Tempora Publishing House Yulia Oliinyk, was launched on Jan...

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. 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...

Wage dissatisfaction, the lack of demand on the labor market, and limited career opportunities are the main factors that prevent young people from finding a job. These are the findings of a survey...

The Kyiv-based Tempora Publishers specialize in memoiristic-archival and historical literature. Among its publications are unique books about little-known or completely unfamiliar facts, events, and...

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...

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...

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...

You cannot confuse Mykola Kondratiuk’s deep, melodious, and unwavering baritone with anyone else’s. Kondratiuk was a superb opera singer and the premier performer of many Ukrainian songs, including...