№25, (2002)

Despite its officially proclaimed “European choice,” Ukraine is greeting EU and NATO expansion somewhere from the sidelines. The European Union even gave Ukraine a consolation prize, EU neighbor...

Every morning, on my way to work, I see red slogans sprayed on two of the supports of the Footbridge: “Glory to Ukraine!” and “Glory to the Heroes!” About ten yards farther on someone wrote “You Are...

President Leonid Kuchma signed an executive order on August 30 setting up a Euro-Atlantic Integration Council, Interfax Ukraine was told by the chief executive’s press secretary Olena Hromnytska. She...

Thursday night the Ukrainian Embassy in Brazil was attacked by robbers. Keeping the diplomats at gunpoint, the bandits “tried to seize the diplomatic representation’s equipment,” the Ministry of...

On the eve of Ukrainian Independence Day, Kyiv’s Helman Gallery hosted a display by postmodern artist Vasyl Tsaholov, titled The Ukrainian X-Files. His series is not cinematographic but purely...

On the eve of Independence Day the League of Ukrainian Philanthropists according to tradition held an awards ceremony for the laureates of four prizes simultaneously. The festivities were hosted...

Congresses of princes, as a form of government and a way to make important decisions and settle disputes, began to be practiced in the second half of the eleventh century. Such conventions discussed...

When dealing with any proposal, it seems best to start by addressing the ways to implement it. Among many political statements marking the start of the political season one’s attention is drawn by...

The official statistics make even cabinet functionaries look up in surprise. Labor and Social Policy Minister Ivan Sakhan says that, according to the State Statistics Committee, Ukrainians spent UAH...

Ukraine and Azerbaijan have held talks in Baku on possible avenues of cooperation in carrying out the Odesa-Brody project. This oil pipeline was built in order to transport Caspian oil primarily from...

Schoolchildren and college students tested Verkhovna Rada’s new software in parliament on August 30. The people’s deputies’ seats were occupied by youngsters, members of the Little Academy of...

Yet again Ukraine is beginning to be conquered by a Ukrainian cultural product from abroad. The point is not even that showings in Poland, at an obscure Ukrainian film festival, or at Harvard, at a...

When Ellochka the Cannibal showed Ostap Bender her “Shanghai leopard” in Ilf and Petrov’s Twelve Chairs (the leopard actually being a Russian hare slaughtered in Tambov province) it was probably the...

“Music was born by the spirit of the prophets and has the power to uplift anyone to the level of prophetic inspiration.” These words by Rabbi Nakhman in the best way possible express the musical soul...

“Mr. Yushchenko is prompting himself to take part in the positive changes already underway and is begging the president, the initiator of these changes, to do some asking.” This is how Volodymyr...