№20, (2012)

Last week the Ukrainian administration made two decisions that have a direct bearing on the development of this society. The first one was the Law of Ukraine “On Nongovernmental Organizations,” the...

Portraits of Paloma Picasso, Catherine Deneuve, Iman, Linda Evangelista, and Dita Von Teese were painted in a somewhat casual manner, using the illustrator’s original mixed black ink and...

Notwithstanding important progress in poverty reduction since independence 20 years ago, Ukraine is not achieving its full potential. It is time to focus attention on why despite ambitious...

The fourth event of the Euro-2012 Environment Supporter national environmental project was held in Lviv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kyiv on March 24. This time, volunteers and all the people concerned...

Recently the legislators of Pennsylvania, US, made amendments to their election law. They passed Act No. 934, which regulates the way the voters have to identify themselves when going to vote. Now in...

The Verkhovna Rada refused further consideration of amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On Touring Activities in Ukraine” (No. 8757) after the wave of protests by performers and producers, public...

The Kingdom of Morocco is the first African country to have held a summit with the European Union, signed an association and FTA agreements. Morocco is a member of NATO and takes part in numerous...

When commenting the decree on the Strategy of State Policy for Civil Society Support in Ukraine signed by the president, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrii Kliuiev declared...

On March 16, Moldova elected Nicolae Timofti, a 63-year-old lawyer, as president. Beginning in 2009, the Moldovan parliament had been unable to elect the head of state because of the destructive...

Exhibition of graphic works by Yurii Ivaskiv took place in the House of Scientists. The author, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the National Aviation University presented nearly 70...

This winter brought the Ukrainian farmers quite a few unpleasant surprises, with about one-third of winter crops killed by unprecedentedly severe frosts. According to the Ministry of Agrarian...

The important date, 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s only professional theater prize, Kyiv Pectoral, annually awarded on the International Theater Day at the Ivan Franko National Theater, predictably...

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau of Dnipropetrovsk is in talks on building spacecrafts for South American nations of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, the journalists were told by the bureau’s chief designer...

On April 11 the Ukrainian Culture Foundation, a non-governmental charitable organization, headed by the well-known poet and public figure Borys Oliinyk, celebrated the 25th anniversary of the...

Last year Kyiv photographer Maksym Dondiuk was one of the winners of the 13th All-Ukrainian Photo Contest of Den/The Day with a series of his works “Tuberculosis. 10 thousands every year....