№23, (2010)

Is it possible today to learn the Ukrainian language in the Ukrainian capital? The answer is no. Since, unlike the rest European capitals, where studying national languages is encouraged on the state...

Last weekend’s state funeral at Krakow’s Wawel Castle of President Lech Kaczynski and First Lady Maria, victims of the plane crash at Smolensk (April 10), was broadcast live by Ukraine’s First and...

Romania again shows interest in the Ukrainian territory. Like in the case with Serpent Island, the matter is allegedly about the wrong demarcation of the state border between the two states. However...

On the evening of March 27, around 8 p.m., I went for a walk in downtown Kyiv. It had been a hectic weekend, combining the usual workload (weekends are always the busiest part of my week), with...

Spring has come, and the Ukrainian bikers are getting prepared to set off, following their varying routes. Although these people love freedom and independence, they are aware of sharing highways with...

Not long before this special event, already a Volynian brand, took place, the citizens of the oblast center received a present in the form of a footbridge. This bridge connected the two banks of the...

ISTANBUL – Will the recent rapprochement between the United States and Syria mark a new era in Syria’s international standing?Syria can hope for two major changes following the restoration of full...

For nearly 30 years – half of his life – the biker Freeman has been racing at full speed along the Ukrainian roads on his motor trike, wind in his face. Even at 60, his character won’t change: his...

The Lviv National Gallery of Arts recently presented a restored iconostasis from Archangel Mykhail Cathedral in the village of Humnysko (Busk raion). This activity was dedicated to the 200th...

In the 2010 elections the Iraqiya party, led by ex-Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, won 91 seats in parliament, current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law Coalition got 89 seats, the...

Doroha do blyzhnioho (A Path to One’s Neighbor) — the second audiobook by His Eminence Liubomyr Huzar, head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) — was launched on April 14 in the...

Green Package for ecology teachersThe OSCE projects coordinator in Ukraine presented the first component of the instructional complex “Green Package” — the Ukrainian version of a teachers’ handbook...

The history of the Ukrainian people is extremely rich in prolonged stretches of sacrificial struggle for freedom (“Cossack’s liberties,” to use a term of the past epochs), for the right to be the...

“When BjØrnson’s name is uttered, you get a feeling of the flag of Norway being hoisted. Because in his weaknesses and in his genius he is as distinctly Norwegian, as thoroughly national as...

1918: Ukrainian troops led by Colonel Petro Bolbochan set off to fight the Bolsheviks. 1938: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR and the Central Committee of the...