№23, (2001)

Hitherto one could learn about Taras Shevchenko’s work from books, television and radio programs, or museum excursions. Now we can listen to his creations on the Kobzar compact disk, which has been...

Ukraine is again in line for renewal of the EFF (extended financing facility) program: on September 20 the question will be considered at a session of the IMF Council of Directors. Winding up his...

The Evening Express (Aberdeen, Scotland) published an article on the mismanagement of hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations raised for Ukrainian children, by workers of Aberdeen-based Mission...

On September 1 all Crimean schoolchildren entered or returned to school. Like the rest of Ukraine, educators there have also switched to a 12-year curriculum, with children starting school at six. On...

The meeting of shareholders of the Ukrainian-British joint venture, the Poltava Gas...

Stanley Fischer’s departure as First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF provided an ideal opportunity to re-examine the fund’s Washington Consensus ideology of privatization, liberalization (...

On September 5 Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Minister Yury Smyrnov told Interfax-Ukraine that the police is ready to take “tougher measures” against opposition members during September 15-16 activities...

The Tadzio Gallery hosts Valentyna Yevmenenko’s show called I will Share my Warmth With the Eternal Bird just as two years ago at the same gallery. Of course, it is not a mistake. It is the artist’s...

Every time Den’/The Day celebrates an anniversary, I like to remember how over five years ago I was given a contract to translate, one with a group of investors called the Ukrainian Press Group, and...

According to information recently published by the US State Department, our country is a major supplier of human livestock to the West and Near East. First Deputy Head of the State Committee for...

The autumnal lowering of temperatures has inspired melancholy in the new owners of privatized oblenerho regional power distribution companies. Entering the crucial stage of preparations for the...

A sad piece of news, by no means the first, has come again from Donbas about a disaster that occurred at the Zasiadko Coal Mine, precisely the same mine where Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences...

“The weather favored love-making. The pique waistcoats insisted there had been no August like that since the time of free port transactions.” (Ilf and Petrov, The Golden Calf) A phenomenon is...

On September 4, the parliamentary ad hoc commission investigating the bankruptcy of the Ukrayina Joint Stock Commercial Bank met in regular session. Commission Deputy Chairman Viktor Suslov told The...

In the very north of Ukrainian Polissia, at the intersection of the borders between Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, on the banks of the picturesque Snov River lies a small district town Shchors (Snovsk...