№21, (2009)

Rephrasing Lenin’s hackneyed aphorism “Of all arts cinematography is the most important for us,” it could be said that rock music is the most important kind of art for us. Everyone has, naturally,...

Now every citizen and guest of Kyiv will be able to immerse themselves into the atmosphere of the Cossack era by visiting Mamaieva Sloboda—a restored Cossack village, which was opened in the Kyiv...

Professional journalism should deal with the life of the entire country, not only its leadership, and monitor the remotest corners and smallest villages, not only the capital. Ukraine’s “...

Among the events that Ukrainians can be proud of is the glorious victory in the Battle of Konotop on June 28 (Old Style), 1659. It was won by the allied forces led by Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky and...

This year Poltava oblast, all of Ukraine, and the rest of the interested international community of nations mark two significant anniversaries: the brilliant Ukrainian-born writer Nikolai Gogol’s...

The relationships between Ukrainians and Jews have had many examples of both cooperation and misunderstandings, which left an imprint on people’s memory and have survived in our present views. Yet...

Nobody in Ukraine seems to have noticed Western media and internet reports in the spring and summer of this year on the plight of the unfinished aircraft carrier (in Soviet terminology:”heavy...

Simferopol—In spite of all the efforts that the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar People is making, the leadership of this organization finds it increasingly difficult to resist such a dangerous trend as...

“The main problem facing Ukraine is the lack of deep-rooted national realization of civic responsibility. This is the core challenge the country is to address on its own.” This is what the world’s...

Another one in a string of high-profile murders in Russia: the dead body of the Memorial center human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was found in Ingushetia last Wednesday. According to the...

Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs Volodymyr Ohryzko is now the first deputy of the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council. In this position he is responsible for the country’s...

Michel Duray, Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kyiv, is the only ranking NATO officer who knows and speaks Ukrainian. Recently he was posted to Brussels to coordinate...

This Monday Ukraine played host to US Vice President Joe Biden. It is the first visit of an American official of such rank after the Democrats came to power and the Afro-American Barack Obama became...

July 21 1944: The Institute of History and Archaeology at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR is reorganized as two separate institutes. 1992: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers...

Do you believe that Ukrainian soil can properly feed you, your family, the whole country, and at least 100 million people other countries to boot? If so, wealth should come not only to the state but...