№21, (2002)

The people’s deputies reacted to President Leonid Kuchma’s appearance at the rostrum on June 18 in various ways. The representatives of the For a United Ukraine, Social Democrats, and Viktor...

(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...

The Accounting Chamber of Ukraine has completed its audit of how World Bank loans were used in 1997-1999. It was revealed that a substantial part of the investment projects loaned money under...

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...

June 24 saw the third regular rotation of the Ukrainian special UN peacekeeping police force in Kosovo. Shortly earlier, the 112 dog squad policemen, members of the rapid deployment unit, and future...

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 missing persons bureau of the Red Cross organization in Ukraine marked its tenth anniversary the week before last. From the first day of its establishment it has been working in close cooperation...

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...

On June 20 Our Ukraine declared in parliament that it would block the vote on the agenda unless a special committee of inquiry was set up to investigate the Bank Ukrayina bankruptcy. That fraction’s...

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...

In the month after the National Security and Defense Council decided to work out a strategy aimed at joining the collective security system based on NATO one can see a certain evolution in 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...

Twenty Ukrainian school teachers, who won a contest within the framework of the US-Ukrainian Prizes for Teaching Excellence program, will go for advanced studies to the United States of America...

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...

The idea of establishing a natural gas transit international consortium, agreed upon in Saint Petersburg by Leonid Kuchma, Vladimir Putin, and Gerhard Schroeder, has for the first time received a...