№25, (2004)

Last week Ukraine’s information space received a massive infusion of opinion poll ratings. They came from both supporters and staffs of presidential hopefuls, and from sociological companies that...

The 120-day presidential election campaign will end on October 31. The events of the past few weeks — first and foremost, Viktor Yushchenko’s sudden illness and the Ivano-Frankivsk incident involving...

Caution dominated in the camp of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics heavyweight boxing champion Volodymyr Klytchko before his Sunday bout with DaVarryl Williamson. Speaking at a news conference, Volodymyr...

October 5. 1933. The People’s Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR passed a decision on the Berezil Theater, discharging Les Kurbas (later shot) from the post of its artistic director. 1993...

Evaluating Ukraine’s progress, from both a domestic and international perspective, in implementing the political reforms necessary to achieve the country’s ultimate stated goal — membership in NATO...

The parliamentary majority coordinator Stepan Havrysh told journalists last Thursday that it was quite possible that he and the Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz would propose in the nearest future...

At his recent meeting with the Russian mass media Ukraine’s prime minister and presidential hopeful Viktor Yanukovych made a number of sensational announcements that are nothing short of campaign...

The current meeting between Ukrainian and Russian defense officials and arms dealers, held this time in Sevastopol, could have been even more fraternal than the previous ones, but for a single fact...

Dnipropetrovsk celebrated Europe Day for the first time this spring, with the festivities taking place on the city’s main square that still bears Lenin’s name. At the foot of the statue dedicated to...

We are now in a one-year countdown to establish a new approach to globalization. In September 2005, world leaders will meet at the UN to review the progress made since the Millennium Assembly in...

Mid-May this year marked the 110th birthday of Mykola Shrah, who was a typical representative of the 1890s generation, but also a man whose life story deserves special notice. He lived a life that...

People in Brussels are commenting more emphatically on possible changes in Ukraine’s foreign policy off the record. An anonymous, well-informed source told Radio Liberty that “Victor Yanukovych’s...

“I have an excellent team,” said Jozsef Szabo after the game against Bayer. The Dynamo coach had every right to say this because it was his (!) very team that was playing on the pitch that...

The presidential elections are just around the corner in Ukraine, with Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych clearly positioned as the two frontrunners. What is your assessment of the future...

This author has repeatedly stressed that the technologies of conflict being applied by the principal presidential candidates are dangerous. Their direct result is political tension that is mounting...