№21, (2000)

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Passers-by eye curiously the man and his bicycle with a trailer. He is met in towns and villages. Some are interested to listen to him; others are not. On June 27, he was spotted on the road from...

On July 5 German Minister for Protection of the Environment and Nuclear Power Units Safety JЯrgen Trittin reported at the second Chornobyl Containment Fund Conference held in Berlin that 335.5...

July 11: 1925. The Ukrainian National Democratic Association was founded in Lviv. 1996. Ukrainian coal miners began mass protest actions and strikes, demanding to be paid back wages. July 12...

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma addressed the consultative meeting with a comprehensive speech in which he characterized the current economic situation in Ukraine and paid special attention to the...

Last Friday, Anatoly Kinakh, president of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (UUIE), and Oleksandr Suhoniako, president of the Association of Ukrainian Banks (AUB), held a closed...

Albert Camus wrote that every generation feels confident it will change this world. His own generation, he continued, already knows it will never do that, yet its mission could be even greater: not...

An art gallery has been inaugurated in Kharkiv at the brand- new ABEK...