№23, (2009)

On August 23, 2009, Europe for the first time honored the memory of victims of Nazism and Stalinism. After the OSCE resolution was issued, the parliaments of the Baltic States one by one adopted...

What happened last week may well have left a noticeable trace in the history of gas relations between Ukraine and Russia, although even now, as of Sept. 3, 2009, no changes have been made in the...

Vissarion Belinsky once wrote in his article about the theater: “Do you love the theater? With all of your heart… with all the devotion born of sparkling youth…” For many years these lines have lived...

GfK Ukraine has studied to what extent Ukrainians feel happy and pleased with life in comparison with Europeans and Russians by conducting a survey named Roper Reports®Worldwide Country Overview:...

In a recent letter to the prime minister, the president of Ukraine expressed concern over the lack of contacts with Ukrainian organizations abroad and urged the Cabinet of Ministers to step up...

Vladimir Putin’s visit to Poland to take part in the commemoration events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the World War II was anticipated with special interest. Information...

“Few perhaps know /That for him there is naught sacred… /That he scorns freedom, /That he knows no homeland,” wrote Pushkin about Mazepa in his poem Poltava. In 1691 a group of anonymous nuns...

We, Ukrainians, must not be blamed for failing to admit our historical faults. Our history, like that of any other nation, does have some painfully unpleasant pages which we would like to erase from...

The monument to Ukrainian poet, writer of political essays and social political activist Olena Teliha (maiden name Shovgenova) has been unveiled on the territory of National Ukrainian Technical...

Kazakhs owe everything they have obtained during the years of independence — democratic traditions, statehood, and sovereignty — to their Constitution. This was stated in Kyiv by Extraordinary and...

“How wonderful to see your country’s revival! / How sorrowful to watch the ruins of your dreams …” These lines from the poem Chervoni korohvy (Red Banners) were written in 1918—a sad period in the...

KaZantip-2009, a forum of youth culture, was held in the Crimea for the 17th time. Its organizers introduced numerous novelties this year and yet there is an opinion that KaZantip-2009 was not nearly...

Economically, the arrival of the hryvnia meant that a truly independent state had been created. The paying capacity and stability of the national currency depend on the general condition of our...

Continued from TITLE PAGE The text of the Polish Sejm’s July 15, 2009, resolution on the assessment of the tragic 1943 events in Volhynia, which groundlessly alleges that “the Organization of...

Seven years have passed since the Sknyliv tragedy, which is considered the world’s worst airshow disaster in terms of the number of casualties. Let us recall Sknyliv’s awful “harvest”: on July 27,...