№21, (2002)

In the words of deputy head of the museum Liudmyla Ryzhko-Pavlenko, “This exhibition is unusual. For the first time an exposition of such scale and level, representing the whole of Ukraine, has been...

British tax collectors joke that, before their compatriots learned to voluntarily pay taxes, local tax evaders had to be put into debtors’ prisons for 200 years. Ukrainian tax evaders are most afraid...

Archbishop Nikola ETEROVIC, Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine: “The visit to Ukraine of Pope John Paul II in June last year is a very important event. Catholics prayed much for the Holy Father to meet...

Alexander Rahr is quite a knowledgeable German foreign policy expert who specializes in the former Soviet states. As director of the CIS Relations Program at the Foreign Policy Society of Germany, he...

Our society still predominantly consists of products of the Soviet past, no matter how they live and what they do now. Hence we all look alike as representatives of the same species bred in the same...

Farmers united in the Association of Farmers and Private Land Owners of Ukraine held their XII congress in Kyiv. “The major problem for the development of farming in Ukraine is price policy, that is...

On June 19 the parliament accepted the query of People’s Deputy Hryhory Omelchenko to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Security Service about the necessity of investigating the sale of the...

(Continued from previous issues) The successful performance of Petro Zavadovsky in the field of education prompted Catherine II to appoint him Chief Director of Public Schools. In 1784 he chaired...

Ovations after a performance or a concert are not rare with the National Opera of Ukraine: after all, music is music, opera is always opera, and Slavic emotion is common knowledge. Still, a standing...

Photographic artists regard today’s Ukrainians as an inexhaustible creative source. On the one hand, globalization brings new trends to Ukraine; on the other, it so far peacefully coexists with the...

The album’s first soundtrack presents a 23 second ovation. The charity concert by the NMAU students’ orchestra conducted by Roman Kofman at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn in fact enjoyed great...

The second festival of new British cinema, although it fully coincided with the program of the spring week of British film in Moscow, displayed all the optimistic signs of cultural exchange. A good...

The 2001 Yevhen Chykalenko Prize will go to Stanley Peterson of Canada, Iwan Shewciw of Australia, and Volodymyr Berseniev of Ukraine. This prize was established five years ago by the League of...

Kyiv artist and showman Hennady Hutharts staged a real action painting performance at the ceremony of opening his exhibit, Clouds Like Heroes, at the Block A Gallery. The star is a veteran of the...

Uzbekistan has decided to withdraw from GUUAM [Georgia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova]. The comments by Kyiv, Tbilisi, and Baku are mostly calm while Chisinau is less optimistic. The...