№22, (2010)

I’m going to confess right away: I’ve never been to Viadrina. Because I didn’t have a Schengen visa. I saw Viadrina only in pictures and standing on the Polish bank of Oder.What is Viadrina? It’s a...

I don’t know what happened. All I know is that explanations go from atmospheric mist to ideological mist, from engineering malfunctions to xenophobic pathology. This is what happens when...

Russian science fiction authors, when modeling their country’s near or distant future, will typically envisage Ukraine as a constituent part of Russia. This is the case particularly in those...

1919: The Soviet government’s decree instituting corrective labor camps marks the beginning of the notorious GULAG network. 1935: In Washington, signatories from twenty-one countries, including...

Yesterday in Lviv, in Shevchenko’s Grove (The Museum of People’s Architecture and Life), the Garden of the Ukrainian Diaspora was solemnly planted. Those planting the young trees included the...

The organizers of the event invited specialists on state security and international relations representing 22 countries in Europe, Asia and America to come to Lviv and participate in the...

What good can one expect from all those bad things that are happening in Ukraine (and elsewhere)? This is one of the questions Ukrainians have been most frequently asking themselves, and experts...

Dirk BRENGELMANN, Assistant Secretary General on Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO, has come to our country at a time when the new Ukrainian government is trying to define the new status of...

Bakiyev is deprived of immunityThe interim government of Kyrgyzstan, which removed the country’s president Kurmanbek Bakiyev from power, stated that the country’s leader, while formally maintaining...

NEW YORK – China’s willingness to join negotiations on potential sanctions against Iran and to send President Hu Jintao to a nuclear security summit in Washington this month are important preliminary...

The first visit of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych to the USA proved to be quite productive. On the eve of the nuclear safety summit, he had already fulfilled virtually all the things he had...

LVIV — Shortly before Easter, Lviv’s Palace of Art hosted the third Autumnal Salon exhibit. Works of art could be submitted only by members of the Lviv Branch of the Artists’ Union of Ukraine — and...

External testing has been discussed on an unprecedented scale during the past couple of weeks. On the one hand, young people will soon take their college/university entrance exams. On the other hand...

People can now learn about the way Cherkasy spends its free time from the new tourist-information magazine Zhyvy v Cherkasakh (Live in Cherkasy). The first issue of the newly-created edition was...

Ukraine’s long-troubled education system is now in a state of paroxysm. Since the nomination of the controversial Education Minister, Dmytro Tabachnyk, students and professors, especially in the...