№22, (2012)

To cross the Polish-Ukrainian border without waiting, drivers have to give a bribe of 50 to 500 hryvnias. This sensational information (many of our compatriots have already put up with and actively...

According to experts, in the beginning of 2012 there were 45,636,000 people living in Ukraine (over the past year the number reduced by 145,000). According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Health,...

Internet has gone beyond human control and became a new reality – virtual one which requires knowledge of rules and principles of safety. According to IT experts, to become informed...

The intellectual events of nationwide importance have become more frequent in Ukraine. One of them is the thematic presentation “The future has an absolute ear,” which will take place...

At the end of the last week the National Institute of Strategic Studies celebrated its 20th anniversary. The highest guest expected in the Ukrainian Home was the head of the Presidential...

The story about the struggle of the Stara Zburivka community (Kherson oblast, Hola Prystan raion) against the local authorities has continued since 2007. That’s when the village community...

Anton Vidokle, a noted Russian artist, curator, co-founder and editor of e-flux on-line journal (e-flux.com) specializing in contemporary art, visited Kyiv to take part in 2012 Arsenale’s...

In the 1970s, the artist got vividly and seamlessly fit into the dense community of the Moscow underground and was revered not only by selected visitors of semi-legal exhibitions,...

Hosting Euro-2012 in June should be a once in a generation opportunity for Ukraine to showcase its European credentials and a chance to show how far Ukraine has come since the collapse of the...

What is the purpose of civilisation? Viewing the track record of our species, it’s tempting to see the ultimate fate of any culture as decay and demise. Is the future of all (temporary, organised)...

1620: Zaporozhian Cossacks compose the well-known message addressing Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire. 1838: Taras Shevchenko is redeemed from serfdom, owing to painstaking efforts on the part...

The initiative group “December 1” was founded on the 20th anniversary of the all-Ukrainian referendum on independence. Creating of such a union was initiated by three Churches (Ukrainian Orthodox...

Last Friday Ukraine and the European Union initialed the Association Agreement, including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area. The document was signed by Pavlo Klimkin, head of Ukraine’s...

The Forum was supposed to be held under the personal patronage of the head of Kyiv City State Administration Oleksandr Popov. Last year in December Vladyslav Troitsky, organizer of GogolFest, theater...

The scandal around the incident of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill has led to the predictable consequences. First the leading clerics tried to unconvincingly explain the...