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The championship of Europe has pushed to the background the end of the Ukrainian soccer season. The more so that the last leg was only to identify those who would leave the top league. But even the...

Canada confirms its readiness to fully fulfill the clauses of the 1995 Ottawa Memorandum on the closure of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) and is allocating an additional $18 million for the...

How does our contemporary picture long-dead rulers? Most often like this: he was bellicose, always riding a horse, his whole life was a chain of endless wars, and he is almost untutored in political...

Ukraine should support the initiative of Russia to set up a joint European antimissile defense system if, of course, other European states take part. This is the opinion of General Oleksandr...

OSCE High Commissioner for Ethnic Minorities Max van der Stuhl, visiting Ukraine on the Russian government’s request to find out about the human rights of the Russian ethnic community, had a number...

The declaration of the state sovereignty of Russia, passed by the RSFSR Supreme Soviet ten years ago, became one of the first points in a new system of coordinates not only in the USSR but the world...

On June 22-23 German Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer (in the photo) assured President Kuchma in Kyiv that Germany could be Ukraine’s advocate in the West, and that his country is...

Everytime you meet artistic people who try to convey to others their view of the world during this hard time of ours, you subconsciously grow respectful of their titanic work. Our reality is not too...

Pictures are painted in studios or usual living apartments, but they are sold where they will sell. In Kyiv this is usually on Andriyivsky uzviz. The paintings are not auctioned off here, but they...

Ukraine between the West and Russia. This statement itself entails the necessity of a certain choice, a certain clear attitude. The same statement brings us to the conclusion that this choice has...

Ukraine has at last decided to take into account the experience of civilized countries and is making yet another attempt to pass a law on the activities of its intelligence services. The bill, to be...

Last Thursday the Constitutional Court (CC) made public its conclusion to what extent the presidential draft law on changes to the Constitution resulting from the referendum comply with Articles 157...

Ukraine seems to be still recovering from shock and becoming aware that it was a pipe dream to join the club of the world’s leading players in the aircraft industry. It seemed only recently that the...

Some time ago I happened to hear a Kyiv street poll conducted by the Ukrainian office of Radio Liberty. The poll was short, but for me it was painful, sad and full of doubts. I even felt again, for a...

A confluence of VIPs and grand plans marked the meeting between artist Ivan Marchuk and the press, along with his devotees, held at the conference hall of the Institute of Sociology of the National...