№24, (2007)

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...

Recently, both representatives of Ukraine in Europe’s major club tournament, the Champions League, successfully overcame the qualification hurdle and will now play in the main tournament whose group...

Vasyl Vovkun, the chief stage director of festivities commemorating Independence Day in Kyiv, says it is especially important to use creative means to form our country’s national visage and...

While the total number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in Ukraine is about 1.5 percent of the population, you should multiply this figure by approximately 15 to determine the real incidence of this...

“For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest.” This is what Hitlers, Stalins, Pinochets, Pol Pots and their ilk forget when they destroy innocent people — from thousands and hundreds of...