№25, (2003)

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...

Europe finds itself at a paradoxical turning point. While legal harmonization and constitution-making attest to deepening integration, Europe’s institutions have failed to generate what every...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...