№20, (2004)

On June 11 President Leonid Kuchma leveled scathing criticism at cabinet ministers in charge of the economy for their failure to effectively tackle the value-added tax (VAT) problem. Speaking at a...

“Echoes of an Old City” is the title of a solo exhibition by the young Kyiv artist Oleksandra Hordiyets, which was hosted by Irena Gallery. Lanes and patios, which the artist has combined in the...

“What, in your opinion, are the priorities of Armenian-Ukrainian relations?” “Ukraine has had fraternal relations with the Armenian people since the tenth or eleventh century. Armenians were...

Education has played a big part in healing Europe’s divisions. Four decades ago, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer approved the creation of new textbooks that children in both countries would use...

Amsterdam, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, London, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Berlin, the remotest parts of the US, Canada, Australia. Ukrainians in this country and throughout the world,...

A memorial plaque displaying Hryhir Tiutiunnyk’s profile, with his characteristic luxuriant forelock, was recently unveiled on the wall of a house on Andriyivsky Uzviz St. in Kyiv. The inscription...

In principle, there is nothing wrong with the phenomenon of guest workers. Poles have traditionally traveled to neighboring Germany in search of jobs, even when Poland was still a “country of the...

A week of “Russian Nights” in Los Angeles culminated with an awards ceremony on April 22 at the prestigious Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The gala event was held at the end of a weeklong “...

UKRAINE’S YANA KLOCHKOVA WAS AGAIN SECOND TO NONE AT THE MARE NOSTRUM PREOLYMPIC TOURNAMENT IN BARCELONA. IN THE 400 METERS INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY, HER FAVORITE EVENT, SHE BEAT THE RUNNER-UP, RUMANIA’S...

Despite its obvious significance, this event has been not duly appreciated. A multilingual Poetry International Web site has launched a Ukraine section with pages created by Ukraine’s most prominent...

James Mace embarked on the most important project of his life and accomplished it in the 1980s. Everything he did later pales in comparison and is starkly contrasted to his time of glory. He burst...

A sad piece of news from the US — the death of Ronald Reagan- was being discussed near a well on Tsukrozavod (Sugar Refinery) Street in Stara Syniava, a district center in Khmelnytsky oblast. “...

June 15. 1775. The Zaporozhzhian Sich was destroyed by the Russian Army. 1918. The first issue of the Komunist [Communist] weekly, organ of the organizing bureau for convoking yet another “First...

The Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Studies Museum has opened an exhibit of the Nature 2004 Sixth National Photo Contest, with the Grand Prix, the Golden Salamander, awarded to Yevhen Kom (Zaporizhia), the...

Why do the hardships in Ukraine make some people want to flee the country but motivate others to act and improve the situation? Why did the Ukrainian Youth Association members, after socializing...