№20, (2003)

The June 12 NATO-Ukraine Committee meeting held as part of the NATO Defense Ministers session in Brussels applauded the efforts by the Ukrainian leadership to implement the 2003 Target Plan as well...

The Ukrainian government has fallen into the trap of virtual statistics. The data with which the country’s leadership is operating are incomplete, to put it mildly, and this affects the quality of...

The barbarous ruination of the aesthetic image and illegal destruction of historical monuments in Ukraine’s capital not only lacerate the hearts of Kyivans but also call forth protests from the...

June 24: 1861 . The first Congress of Naturalists in the Russian Empire opened in Kyiv. 1934. Ukraine’s higher state and Party institutions were transferred from Kharkiv to Kyiv. June 25:...

Each of the offices mentioned would undoubtedly have meant a high social status. It would have obviously been difficult to make a choice if fate had decreed to choose one of them. Kyrylo Razumovsky (...

As the president was being debriefed after his fact-finding tour of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units stationed in the Crimea, Defense Minister Gen. Volodymyr Shkidchenko submitted his resignation,...

Ukraine’s multi-vector policy has always been criticized. From the geopolitical perspective, Ukraine was doomed to such a policy. Yet, from the historical and cultural perspective, this approach was...

On June 19, Verkhovna Rada amended the Concept of Ukraine’s National Security (Fundamentals of the National Security Policy), with 319 of the 439 deputies present supporting this decision. The...

Vadym Pysariev, legendary Ukrainian choreographer, gifted organizer, art director of the Solovyanenko Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Donetsk, premiered with Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty during...

Liubomyr Buniak, former manager of the Druzhba Oil Pipeline and current mayor of Lviv, has suddenly supported using the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline in the reverse mode, which means the pipeline, instead...

Cultural events involving choirs make one think above all of folk music, although they actually involve far more. The repertoire of such choirs includes old Ukrainian religious music and modern...

On June 20, President Leonid Kuchma submitted to Verkhovna Rada a new version of his draft law on changes to the Constitution. The president said in his televised address to the Ukrainian people last...

What is today’s Russia? What possibilities does it give Ukraine and what problems does it create? What can we, in our turn, offer Russia and how can we help it? What kind of Russia do we need? With...

The main subject discussed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Meyers and Ukraine’s Defense Minister Volodymyr Shkidchenko together with Chief of Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces...

A team of Ukrainian fashion designers, together with Iryna Movchan, president of the Ukrainian Reform Educational Center, and Marta KOLOMIYETS, member of the board, UREC and Ukrainian Women’s Fund,...