№2, (2011)

1661: The Polish king grants Lviv’s Jesuit College the academic status of university. 1918: Soviet Russia’s People’s Secretariat adopts a decree on the formation of the Workers and Peasants’ Red Army...

The planet’s resources are being tapped as never before, a problem only sporadically addressed by energy-saving governmental programs, and even then only in a nominal manner. We treat nature in a...

The National Museum of Ukrainian Literature is hosting an exhibit entitled “So We’ll Raise That Red Guelder Rose.” The exposition presents a collection of works from the family...

  Smoking rates drop by 10 percent  According to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, in 2005-2010, the smoking rates (including episodic smoking) among the Ukrainian...

Besides music, in which he took an organic interest since childhood, Oleksii Kuznietsov has also been engaged in boxing, in order to be able to defend himself. He was very successful in sports, but...

On January 17, a protest action against the political persecution of the Maidan-2 activists and representatives of patriotic organizations, in particular Tryzub (Trident), that supported the...

On January 14 an exhibit made up from the collections of the Jelgava Gederts Eliass History and Art Museum (Jelgava, Latvia) opened in Kyiv. The exhibit is a part of a project titled “...

Some mysterious romantic haze seems to be veiling the name and deeds of this ruler even now, 835 years after his tragic death. A reckless and gallant warrior; a tough, often cruel, but always fair...

According to the information of the Ecological and Cultural Center in Kyiv, there are more than 500 ancient trees in Ukraine. However, half of them are not protected. There are 82 trees that are...

Sad but true: Ukraine doesn’t offer an attractive business environment these days. Local businessmen are hard put to come to terms with the bureaucrats and rampant corruption, which means...

Andrii is a perfect hero. Modest, laconic and friendly, he doesn’t like being the center of attention, but he is keen on sports and singing. At the beginning of December the whole of Ukraine...

Continued from previous issue The first stage of Mykola Khriienko’s project “Ukrainians beyond the Urals” was the most difficult – it lasted the longest (seven months and...

On December 17 Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old street vendor, attempted self-immolation in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid after police confiscated his produce cart. To hammer in the...

The Russian South Stream gas pipeline project has been a thorn in Ukraine’s side. President, premier and energy-sector officials repeatedly argued that renovating the Ukrainian gas transit...

Dnipropetrovsk – It appears that Ukraine’s exclusion from the category of Free Countries in the Freedom House ranking is the last thing to worry the Ukrainian regime, which recently...