№22, (2007)

Vocational School No. 2 in Dnipropetrovsk is where orphans, children who are legally separated from their parents, and handicapped children, many of whom suffer from mental disorders, go to school....

There are approximately 30,000 organizations in Ukraine that belong to various religions and denominations and which exercise freedom of religion that the Constitution of Ukraine guarantees them...

Memory, democracy, spiritual health and freedom of society are very closely-related categories. For a generation of mindless slaves, sincerely convinced (zombified, to be more exact) that “history...

Olav Berstad, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Norway to Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus, was among the participants of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of Security...

I think that finding oneself living in the vicinity of a disaster is a very unpleasant experience. The warm days that came to replace those of cold rains at the beginning of July inspired optimistic...

July 24 1880: The political trial of members of the combined groups, Narodnaia Volia and Chorny Peredel, begins in Kyiv. 1990: Ukraine’s national blue-and-yellow flag is raised for the first time in...

The opening of a stationary movie theater for psychologically challenged people in a psycho- neurological boarding school in the Kyiv suburb of Pushcha Vodytsia is a real breakthrough. It is a...

After the bout between IBF world champion Wladimir Klitschko and Lamon Brewster virtually all heavyweight boxers are refusing to fight Wladimir. So Vitali, the younger Klitschko, has to wait until he...

Twenty-three-year-old Kyiv native Ilona SLUHOVINA has never resigned herself to her disease. At the age of three she began to feel unbearable pain in her legs. Doctors found a tumor on her spine but...

Lately, Ukraine’s European integration is increasingly associated with visa problems, or rather with problems that Ukrainian nationals confront when they try to obtain visas to EU countries....

Why did Ukrainian children have to dance outside the French Embassy for three hours to obtain visas? How much will the simplified procedure ease the problem of obtaining visas? The answers to these...

Who does not dream of traveling to faraway places? Sometimes our desire for a change of scenery is thwarted by lack of time or money. But you don’t have to go far to acquire some fresh impressions....

Twelve years ago a grave appeared in the center of Kyiv, on St. Sophia Square, at the foot of the belfry of St. Sophia’s Cathedral. It contains the earthly remains of Patriarch Volodymyr of Kyiv and...

On July 16 Kyiv Mohyla Academy hosted a celebration to mark the 60th birthday of the man who revived this distinguished institution, Viacheslav Briukhovetsky. Briukhovetsky’s name...

“Bactericidal adhesive plaster, flesh-colored, heals wounds — only one hryvnia.” Everyday you can hear these kinds of sales pitches on the subways trains. The range of merchandise sold there is huge...