№24, (2008)

For Russia, 2008 is becoming a litmus test that, plunged into the glass of Russian reality, is exposing the actual situation: a new president has been elected and the project to choose “The...

“Just as one cannot study the Holocaust without becoming half- Jewish in spirit, one cannot study the Famine and not become at least half — Ukrainian” James Mace Arsen Zinchenko, a member of the...

What many well-wishers and critics did not believe until the last minute ended up happening: Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople came to ancient Kyiv. He arrived on a Ukraine International...

Four Ukrainian sailors, together with nine crewmen from Burma and one each from Estonia and Russia, were kept hostage from May 28 to July 8 by 30 “Somalia Soldier” sea pirates on board the German...

July 29 1880: The Aivazovsky Art Gallery opens in Feodosiya (Crimea). 1994: Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine suspends the privatization process. July 30 1920: Ukrainian Military Organization led by Yevhen...

On Thursday President Viktor Yushchenko gathered several dozen journalists from the central mass media on the green lawns of his Secretariat, where his quarterly press conferences are traditionally...

The athletes of Dnipropetrovsk and their coaches have sounded the alarm. They say that the preparations for the Euro- 2012 soccer championship are threatening the development of track and field (...

Women’s conviction that smoking helps to control weight is a myth, as evidenced by the findings of a team of experts at University College London. During a six-year-long study the scientists followed...

The Kyiv City State Administration (KMD) recently adopted a decision to transfer the title to 131 hectares of land to the Pyrohove State Museum of People’s Architecture and Folkways of Ukraine. This...

Now that Ukraine is celebrating the 1,020th anniversary of the baptism of Rus’, sociologists would like to know Ukrainian attitudes to some historical landmarks in Ukraine that are connected with the...

Summer is in full swing, so it’s time to talk about Paris. You won’t find a better conversationalist for this topic than Oleh Skrypka, the lead singer of the Ukrainian rock group Vopli...

The speed with which goods are transported abroad is the main goal and the best proof of a successful customs reform. In Lithuania, for example, the procedure of registering a large freight train...

A hostel for 200 foreign migrants recently opened in the village of Rozsudiv in Chernihiv oblast, on the premises of a formal military unit. Migrants can stay there for up to six months even if they...

One should give the current Minister of Education and Science Ivan Vakarchuk his due. After taking up this office, where he inherited a mess not of his own making, he tackled it heroically. The mess...

THE 900TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BAPTISM OF RUS’ IN 1888 In 1888 tsarist Russia celebrated — for the first time on such a scale — the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Kyivan Rus’ and honored the...