№24, (2007)

Kraina mrii u Lvovi, Dreamland in Lviv, is the name of a folk music fair that took place on Sunday, Aug. 26, at Lviv’s museum of folk architecture and daily life, Shevchenko Grove. Among the...

Neo-conservatism has served as a badge of unity for those in the Bush administration advocating an aggressive foreign policy, massive military spending, disdain for international law and institutions...

On Aug. 13 President Yushchenko of Ukraine signed a decree suspending the cabinet’s decision to establish the state-run Ukratomprom concern until the Constitutional Court rules on its legitimacy. But...

The era of humanitarians and talented people is approaching in Ukraine. Children between the ages of 10 and 16 are already fed up with political soap operas. Industrialization and computerization...

Whenever I visit the glorious Cossack town of Lokhvytsia in Poltava oblast, I always look closely at its old buildings and the scenic spots that I remember from childhood. Yet with every passing year...

Minister of Labor and Social Policy Mykhailo Papiiev recently publicized an interesting fact. Up to 90 percent of the benefits conferred on the electorate by governments and MPs date to election...

Lutsk, the center of Volyn oblast, recently hosted the third professional and amateur film festival My City, My Love. This time, unlike the previous two festivals, among the contestants were...

A couple of weeks ago the Kyiv City Council resolved to establish two centers for HIV-infected children and youth by the end of 2007. One will be on the Right Bank, on Poryk Street, and the other one...

This year Miner’s Day coincided with the celebrations of the 16th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. Naturally, both holidays could not avoid a touch of politics in the current early election...

Kharkiv’s artist Valentyna Safina brought a number of landscapes from her travels, although this geography is rather conventional and is felt in the true sense of the word only in titles (e.g., At...

Sept. 4 1928: The Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a new Ukrainian orthography (“Skrypnyk’s”) that will remain in effect until 1933. 1965: A rally protesting a new wave of political repressions...

“You and I are a happy family, because I’m a machine and you’re a machine.” Only a person who really loves cars could write these words. Berdiansk recently hosted a gathering of passionate lovers of...

The Ukrainian participants in the public hearings “Ukraine on the Eve of Parliamentary Elections” must have been affected by that summer evening in Brussels, or maybe they were in a good mood and did...

We know from the chronicles how princes, their wives, boyars, bishops, and their servants and retinues lived, but we know little about how the ordinary Rusychi, people of ancient Rus’, lived; all...

Halyna Konkova conceived the idea for a series of books about distinguished Ukrainians after publishing her two-volume work consisting of Thirst for Music: Parallels and a Time for Recollections and...