№25, (2007)

With the 29th summer Olympic Games still more than 300 days away, both organizers of the games and their participants are already hoping that the competitions will proceed fairly and professionally....

Nobody knows the precise date when the Dynamo Kyiv Club was born. That’s why Dynamo’s 80th jubilee was celebrated for a whole year. The celebrations culminated in a friendly match...

Kateryna Yushchenko’s Ukraine-3000 International Charitable Foundation is continuing to raise money to build a new children’s hospital in Feofania. On Sept. 4 the benefactors of the Children’s...

The 8th meeting of the diplomatic corps in Kyiv took place recently in a new format, at a time when the two key branches of power are competing for control of Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs....

In spring 2008, eight million Ukrainians will get a surprise from their doctors: young people between the ages of 15 and 29 will receive a booster vaccine for measles and German measles. This...

When choosing a future profession, 97 percent of young Ukrainians are guided by salary considerations and the profession’s prestige. Least important to them is the desire for self- realization. These...

The Pyrohove Fair, which attracts master craftspeople from every region of Ukraine, is thematically neutral and appeals to visitors because they can buy a long-coveted item or even a work of art....

Sept. 11 1943: The Veriovka State Folk Choir is founded. 1996: The first issue of the national Ukrainian daily newspaper Den’ comes off the presses. Sept. 12 1996: Ukraine and the European Union sign...

Another featured guest of our regular column “Our Country through the Eyes of Foreigners” is Urban Rusnak, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to Ukraine. The Day...

The awards ceremony to honor the winners of the nationwide literary competition Vytoky (Roots) was held on Sept. 1. This year the journals Soniashnyk and Kyivska Rus’ were among the organizers of the...

The Sziget Festival is a living organism. Its heart pulses day and night, even in the early morning. Through its “vessels” move hundreds of thousands of people of all ages and nationalities, and...

Boaz Hirsch, the director of foreign trade at Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor, has just made his first visit to our country. Together with a delegation representing nearly 20 Israeli...

Today the “Our Country through the Eyes of Foreigners” column introduces Susanne Nies, international programs manager at the Paris-based Institute of International and Strategic Studies. She is a...

The current land market situation, which is rife with corruption and crime, could be changed by the law on land market, passed by the Verkhovna Rada in the first reading, and the law on state land...

Fate often metes out undeservedly severe punishments to creative people. This happens when the finest creations produced by a God-given talent do not find a proper response from his contemporaries....