№25, (2003)

She is a soloist with the National Opera of Ukraine with an extensive concert tour schedule. This meant that arranging an interview was easier said than done. She visited Kyiv for only a couple of...

The new political reform project, voiced by Oleksandr Moroz and Petro Symonenko at a news conference, then seconded by President Kuchma in his holiday address, allows one to view Ukraine’s political...

The Ukrainian parliament is showing a more and more active involvement in the process of creation of the international gas transport consortium. The parliamentary Committee on the Fuel and Energy...

Stanislav SHEVCHUK, director, European and Comparative Law Center: “The most effective legislation exists in the post-Soviet states that neighbor the European countries, the three Baltic states...

There has been a 117,800 increase in the number of employed females in Ukraine, and now it is around ten million persons. The number of unemployed fell by 12.4% within the period from March 2002 to...

For a few decades the former Jewish Cemetery in Kharkiv Komsomolsky Park, Academician Pavlov St., was mentioned by locals only in a whispers. There were rumors among old-timers that there is a big...

According to local Security Service reports, over 1,100 illegal migrants were detained in Zakarpattia in 2002. This year has also reaped a bumper crop because the local populace, embittered by their...

Fedir STRYHUN, Art Director, Mariya Zankovetska National Ukrainian Academic Drama Theater, People’s Artiste of Ukraine: “First, we shouldn’t connect the word nationalist with other words, as...

A hundred years ago, the death of two Russian diplomatic officers in Serbia and Macedonia brought Russia to the verge of war with Turkey. Both diplomats, Grigory S. Shcherbina, Russian Consul to...

TIME ZONES Transcarpathian Ukraine first became part of Ukraine (Soviet Ukraine) in 1945. For centuries it belonged in turn to Hungary, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Czechoslovak Republic. The...

The Seventh Military Orchestra of the Northern Strategic Command stationed at Chernihiv recently publicly performed compositions based on music dating from the Stone Age. The theme was developed...

In Praise of Folie, the famous satire created in 1509 by the celebrated Dutch humanist philosopher, scholar, theologian, man of letters, and polyglot Desiderius Erasmus, seems relevant even now. Over...

Experts say a mere 2% of Ukrainian young people are members of formally registered youth organizations, compared to over 25% in informal groups. Sociologists generally refer to such informal...

The temples on the premises of the Sviatohirsk [Holy Mountain] Monastery (Slovyanohorsk, Donetsk oblast) will host the Second All-Ukrainian Holy Mountain Vocal Festival on September 11-13, and the...

Now it is difficult to find out for certain whence the fashion for role-play games came. However, sincerely speaking, for most of their participants RPG are not simply fashion but a way of life. They...