№23, (2003)

The Embassy of Ukraine in Great Britain is being restructured. A new unit is being established to attract investment to this country and seek Western partners for private businesses. Ambassador Ihor...

These days an event occurred of great importance for Ukrainian fashion and its future: the Fashion TV channel has appeared in Ukraine. It is one of the five most popular television channels in the...

This festival once again demonstrated that the widespread stereotypes about Ukraine as an eternally singing and dancing nation have a solid foundation. In this particular case the truism was...

Famous Moscow television host Vladimir Pozner recently incurred the righteous wrath of some Russian Orthodox circles, which could eventually lead to a court action. The reason is the interview Mr....

By all accounts, the true price of a nation’s cultural heritage reveals itself not only in its highest achievements, not only in the creative work of titans of its national spirit who are acclaimed...

Everybody belonging to the world of the arts strives to get to the Venice Biennale, which has been held for over a century. Some crave world fame, other do not want to miss new stars appearing on the...

The idea of starting a Red Book for Ukrainian chamber ensembles no longer sounds like a bad joke. One can count such orchestras, particularly those playing Ukrainian music, on the fingers of one’s...

Among the various foreign language textbooks that are accessible in Ukraine, a new one has just appeared and immediately stands out. It deals with Arabic and belongs to Prof. Atef A. Amer. What makes...

Olha KLINHENBERG, film critic: “You might think that I’m engaging in irony, but my biggest fear as a child was that I’d never became a young pioneer-hero. Valya Kotyk and Marat Kazei [young...

Sudak and Novy Svit, small resort towns in the Crimea, hosted the third Chaliapin Opera Festival, unique in form and on an unprecedented scale. Our insane world, dominated by popular culture,...

“There are people who have served terrible terms of imprisonment during our lifetime because they championed some freedom. What makes it all so tragic is that when we suddenly had that freedom it...

The parliament has gone into recess. Somebody said wittily that the session just ended was “a session of codes” which dragged on, however, for several parliamentary semesters... As the current...

Experts claim today’s pre-election “agenda” looks as follows: Which of the presidential candidates are voters putting the greatest confidence in? Joint government/opposition candidates: scenarios and...

On July 15, President Leonid Kuchma summed up economic and political results for the first half of the year during his traditional meeting with reporters at the Presidential Administration press...

America currently finds itself in the midst of a confused search for a central principle around which to organize its foreign and defense policies. For over forty years, until the collapse of the...