№21, (2006)

He saw her for the first time in May 1859, when his friend, the critic Mykola Makarov, the brother of his old friend Opanas Markovych, drove him to a literary soiree at his sister Varvara...

Poland is preparing its own “counter-summit” to deal with energy questions, in contrast to the G-8 summit scheduled for mid-July in St. Petersburg. The top-level meeting in the northern Russian...

Some young people in Vinnytsia, out to prove that they don’t want to read in Russian, drove their point home by staging a rally on the veranda of the regional administration, which they covered with...

The international Golden Otis Prize for outstanding achievements in surgery has been conferred on the All-Ukraine Association of Pediatric Surgeons. The sad fact remains that even after developing...

Many experts call the impending price increase for Russian and Turkmen gas the main threat to Ukraine’s economic stability. Considering that gas accounts for 40 percent of all energy consumed in our...

At long last Yulia Tymoshenko’s bloc, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party of Ukraine have formed a parliamentary coalition. Roman Bezsmertny’s motion to postpone the date of its announcement...

Soon we shall celebrate the 85 th anniversary of the All-Ukrainian Church Council (Sobor) in Kyiv, which restored the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for a short period of time. The...

The fifth US Ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst, has completed his diplomatic mission. Shortly before Herbst’s departure, President Viktor Yushchenko awarded him the Order of Merit, 3rd degree....

Last weekend a national women’s large-formation skydiving record was set over Kyiv, or, to be more exact, over the Central Antonov Air Club at the Chaika stadium. For the first time, 20 girls made a...

British parliamentarians have formed an interparliamentary UK-Ukraine group to facilitate multilateral and informal contacts among British and Ukrainian politicians, including parliamentarians and...

Every year on June 15, the birth anniversary of one of Ukraine’s wine-making geniuses, Oleksandr Yehorov, the Massandra Winery in the Crimea celebrates its corporate holiday. This year’s celebration...

Six and a half decades have passed since that infinitely long day of June 22, 1941, which brought terrible news into every Ukrainian home — more terrible than all the plagues-war had begun! Our...

This July the Chicago Arts Center and New York’s Ukrainian Museum will hold an exhibit of paintings by Malevich, Bohomazov, Yermilov, Burliuk, Maksymovych, and many other noted Ukrainian artists....

“If I sign a ban on selling alcohol today, what will our city’s guests think of us?” Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky asked this rhetorical question at a recent meeting of the Kyiv City Administration...

Linen and silk clothing with mandatory leather or chiffon appliques as well as unusual thin, wool evening dresses with long trains and small jackets will be in fashion this summer. That is the...