№21, (2012)

STOCKHOLM – On a recent visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan, I could not fail to notice the increasingly frequent international calls for an “endgame” in Afghanistan. But an endgame for that country is...

Rukavychka by the art studio Agrafka and The Tale about the Old Lion by Mariana Savka, illustrated by Volodymyr Shtanko, were added into the annual catalog of the best books for children White...

“Kyiv Spring Nocturnes” emerged as a synthesis of fine art and music. The exhibit was launched to the accompaniment of the folk group Desnianka. They performed old Ukrainian songs...

On the first weekend of April the Western mass media reported that the German government is holding negotiations with the Ukrainian side about possible medical treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko in...

Oksana Makar, a victim of rape and tortures, died in Donetsk hospital in the morning of March 29. Pain. Grief.But this horrible situation is still actively discussed today by common citizens,...

The Ukrainian premieres of the films by renowned Austrian film director Michael Glawogger Workingman’s Death (2005) and Whore’s Glory (2011). The first film is dedicated to workers from...

Actors of the Les Kurbas Lviv Academic Theater protested on the International Theater Day instead of celebrating it. Their main demands are decent wages, repairs at the theater’s rundown...

The government and representatives of business are trying to activate a dialog and enlist potential investors’ support. The Foundation for Effective Governance, Kyiv City State Administration, and...

The Kraina Mrii music publishers founded by the VV front man Oleh Skrypka is one of the youngest labels on the Ukrainian phonographic market. It aimed at rationalizing of the publishing of their band...

The scandal around the court case that involves Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill is gaining momentum. Illegal seizures used to be the preserve of businesspeople, but it turns out that the...

Let us recall that the reconstruction began back in the fall of 2011. The first phase of the renewal effort involves replacing communications and pavement, renovating the buildings’ facades and...

The Kyiv-based International Institute of Management (MIM-Kyiv), which has decidedly taken one of the topmost places in the hierarchy of business education in Europe, is also becoming a high-level...

1920: The Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree nationalizing all forestlands formerly run by Russia’s government, monasteries, convents and landlords. 1922: A plenary meeting of...

“Europe’s problem is that now it must become even more united than it was before,” remarked Marc-Olivier PADIS, editor-in-chief of the French magazine Esprit, at a meeting at YE Bookstore.The...