№25, (2003)

Long ago when a little boy in Oklahoma, this writer loved to watch cowboy films on television. The good guys wore white hats, the bad guys wore black ones, and everything was simple. Good always...

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 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...

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has confirmed the Bush administration’s interest in further restoration of full-fledged partnership with Ukraine, which he called a very important country for both...

This is the title of a new exhibition, now underway at the Griffin Gallery, of artist Olena Otroshchenko-Beisembinova, oldest daughter of the famous Tetiana Yablonska. Little porcelain statues,...

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski has backed Ukraine’s intention to become a European Union member. He announced this in Krynica, Poland, where he attended a presentation of Ukrainian regions...

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...

September 9: 1913. Kyiv military pilot Petro Nesterov performed first loop-the-loop in history. 1996. The US House of Representatives passed a resolution to support Ukraine. September 10:...

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...

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...

When on an official visit to Brazil this coming October, President Leonid Kuchma is to sign an international treaty on long-term cooperation in using the Tsyklon (Cyclone)-4 carrier rocket at the...

A 750-page collection embracing eight centuries of Crimean Tatar poetry was presented recently at the Republic Library of the Crimea (Simferopol) by its compilers, Yunus Kandym and Mykola...

Last Tuesday Verkhovna Rada deputies gathered in the session hall after a six-week break. Incidentally, during this period the hall underwent some changes, in part, the wall behind the presidium was...

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...

Traditionally fuel price hikes in the fall are attributed to the harvest peak. However, this time experts point to other possible causes, that is, Ukraine’s reluctance to back-pump oil via the...