№20, (2002)

The overall reserve of Ukraine’s state budget, excluding privatization revenues, reportedly increased by 28% in January to May 2002 compared to the same period of 2001, reaching UAH 12.95 billion....

Our nation’s history shows that unity, coherence, and civil harmony in society have always presented an urgent problem for Ukraine by force of this country’s geographic and geopolitical situation,...

Vitaly MARHULIS, general director, the Association of Consulting Firms of Ukraine: “Like anybody, I have both personal and general dreams. I dream of a prosperous and happy future for my...

A draft, “Strategy of the Relationships between Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,” is ready, currently being deliberated by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. The...

Around ten thousand Ukrainians came from various Italian cities to Oksana Bilozir’s concert in St. Sophia Square in Rome. In this way our compatriots together with the popular singer celebrated...

Competition may be severe, but it can also be graceful — this was something most those attending Kyiv Derby at the National Architecture and Daily Life Museum last Saturday understood. Jumping the...

Leonid Kuchma’s June 12 cadre allocations included the appointment of the United Social Democrat and leader of the SDPU(O) faction Viktor Medvedchuk head of the Presidential Administration. Without...

Kyiv Children’s Academy of the Arts is an unusual educational institution already existing for eight years. The Grand Concert demonstrated that many talented children study there. When you appreciate...

June 18: 1939. The Taras Shevchenko Memorial Museum and a new monument at the poet’s grave were opened in Kaniv. 1996. Ukraine joined the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. June 19: 1993. A...

The cabinet agreed with Ukraine’s leading oil traders on stabilizing gasoline costs on June 12. “We had a meeting with the board of experts, analyzed the situation, and now it is safe to assume that...

Ukraine’s entering NATO is not an issue to be decided in one day, Interfax Ukraine quotes President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma as saying in his interview with Czech newspaper Hospodarske noviny. “Today...

The last premiere of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci at the National Opera in Kyiv caused controversial responses. On the one hand, the audience encored the baritone Vyacheslav Lupalov’s prologue; on the...

The new fourth Verkhovna Rada of independent Ukraine has undergone marked changes over the month since its first plenary session. The last week saw United Ukraine transforming — explicitly rather...

The cabinet has adopted a mechanism of enlisting foreign investment in the agrarian sector and submitted the document as a draft presidential edict for endorsement. The mechanism envisages crediting...

Tetiana Eva Hershuni, a Ukrainian Canadian postmodernist, has presented her canvas to the Cultural Heritage Museum. Her picture, Nostalgia, was, without doubt, the hit of last year’s Women’s...