№21, (2004)

Last Thursday the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolved to increase 2004 national budget revenues by UAH 4.502 billion (to UAH 65.204 billion) and expenditures by UAH 7.987 billion (to UAH 72.18 billion...

The week before last, Kyiv’s Youth Theater was the venue of a rather unusual cultural event called “A Mock Trial of Surzhyk, or a 21st-Century Inquisition.” The organizers, the Ukrayinsky Svitanok...

“Is it true that Ukrainian is now being spoken all over Volhynia?” “Yes, Madam, the Ukrainians speak Ukrainian.” “On the street, too? And in administrative agencies?” “Well, Ukrainians do...

Being the envoy of your nation’s culture and spiritual achievements in other countries is a high and noble mission — a rare, if not unique, vocation. Few individuals, even outstanding ones, are...

Oleksa Alioshkin, who is known among Ukrainian stonemasons for his skill, cuts a peculiar figure in Bukatynka, a village in Chernivtsi district, Vinnytsia oblast, where he and his family moved from...

According to Yulian Bachynsky, states strive for independence not to isolate themselves from the outside world but to receive an impulse for further cultural and economic development, which will...

The oil crisis seems to have given a new lease on life to all hopelessly suspended energy projects. In early June the government passed a decree on the Energy Company of Ukraine and approved the idea...

Interaction among grassroots organizations promotes the development of an integrated society. This is the bottom line of the Fourth International Conference titled “Cooperation between Ukrainian and...

According to the Ministry of Education, nearly 16,000 foreign students are currently studying in Ukraine, whereas Ukrainian schools of higher learning can readily accommodate 50,000. Half of all...

Fashion is almost an imperative. So whenever a self-respecting landowner in the 17th century set about building a Chinese palace in his castle, he was doing so by a decree of Her Majesty Fashion....

In a little while Ukraine will forget what the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) is all about. As was made clear from a letter from FATF President Claes Norgren to Ukraine’s...

There are 65,000 blind people living in Ukraine, along with a larger number of individuals who have various vision problems. Today, this country operates a more or less adequate legal framework aimed...

Major European or North American universities with academic departments specializing in Slavic studies, particularly world Slavic history and culture, often portray Ukraine as seen by our neighbors,...

Ukrainian lawmakers, who earlier voted to freeze the defense reform, have apparently decided to take the illogical step of enacting the military package of laws piecemeal and unsystematically. Last...

On June 28, 2000, the world famous American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski was awarded an Honorable Doctor’s degree by the Academic Council of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University....