№21, (2000)

Four major international air companies announced at the end of June they were merging in a new powerful alliance called SkyTeam. Now that they have joined forces, Air France (France), Delta (the US...

As early as by the late sixteenth century, Europe no longer been looked on the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks as something strange or exotic. Ukraine, then part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, began to...

Almost 35 years ago, the name of the famous choirmaster, People’s Artist of Ukraine, Shevchenko Prize Winner, professor and academician, was linked with the National Hryhory Veriovka Chorus...

Fedor Dostoyevsky once called the classic Europe a cemetery to which one goes to bow to dear graves. However, no better heritage of classic art than this has ever been created, whatever the all-time...

A large meeting was held in Koncha-Zaspa on June 9-11 to discuss state control over the Internet. As Internet.ru reports, concrete decisions on all these questions had been made well before the...

The harvest campaign is underway in Ukraine, including in the Crimea and several southern territories. The first tons of early cereals have been delivered to elevators. However, dispatches from...

The Constitutional Court ruled on July 4 to terminate proceedings in the case presented by 57 and 69 People’s Deputies claiming the unconstitutionality of resolutions passed by the members convened...

Solidarnosc took shape in Poland twenty years ago, first as a labor union, later to play the key role in bringing about changes in Poland and elsewhere in the world, changes that now seem...

Ukraine celebrates St. John the Baptist’s Day (Bonfire Night) almost at the same time that the US does its Independence Day. In all probability, this is not an accidental coincidence. For us, the...

The problem of the impact mass culture has on the soul of the individual and on societal consciousness as a whole became the subject of a lively conversation with Vadym Skurativsky, a well-known...

Two Ukrainian Internet service companies, Lucky Net provider and the ElVisti Information Center have officially presented the 2000 Ukrainian Internet Resources reference book, the first of its kind...

The Polit.ru Internet newspaper has carried an interview with Gleb Pavlovsky, director of the Moscow Center for Political Technologies, who was one of the chief image-makers of Unity during the...

The Constitutional Court’s decision distancing it from the Verkhovna Rada goings-on and referring the case to the Prosecutor’s Office automatically acquitted the majority of all charges of...

Most observers, commenting on the results of the recent meeting of shareholders of Russia’s largest monopoly, Gazprom, paid attention primarily to the fact former Premier Viktor Chernomyrdin, to whom...

Many things are known to have changed since the days of the velvet revolution. Gone is former Speaker Oleksandr Tkachenko who, trying to ward off his dismissal, revealed the names of those majority...