№25, (2008)

In purely sports terms, the second game between the runners-up of Ukraine and Russia had practically little importance. After Dynamo beat Spartak 4:1 two weeks ago, it was quite clear who had won the...

Shoot me, but I don’t understand why Makhno was born in Huliaipole in Zaporizhia region. But don’t take my invitation to shoot me seriously. I’m warning you only because the issue here is Makhno the...

Hanna Cherin is a poet, writer, and literary critic. Living on the other side of the ocean, she devoted all her creative heritage-over 50 years of writing — to Ukraine, her native land. Each of...

To many people, the assessment of the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people, which is entrenched in the law passed by the Verkhovna Ra­da of Ukraine on Nov. 28, 2006, is...

Sept. 2, 1913: The 1st All-Russian Sports Olympics opens in Kyiv. 1930: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR pass a resolution on...

Florists in all nine districts of Ukraine’s capital have prepared masterpieces of landscape design. This year visitors to the 53rd floral show and competition are admiring paintings decorated...

Much has been written about the enigmatic phenomenon of genius. Arthur Schopenhauer, the brilliant aphorist and celebrated German philosopher, best captured the difference between genius and talent...

The tragedy of the Holodomor has been the subject of long-standing and broad discussions in Ukraine. The Ukrainian government declared 2008 the Holodomor Victims’ Remembrance Year. Clearly, every...

After a five-year interruption, the traditional weeks of German culture have been revived in Ukraine on a much larger scale than ever before. Germany’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Dr. Hans-Jurgen...

The 21st Moscow International Book Fair gathers publishers from all over the world, and working there is a necessary part of gaining access to the international book market. This year over 30...

The awards ceremony at the “Zolote kurcha” XII International Festival of Films and Television and Radio Shows for Children and Youth just ended in the Crimean city of Feodosia. This year the festival...

This year’s 29th Olympic Games in China brought Ukraine unexpected success: we won a record 27 medals instead of the projected 14 and ranked 11th, occupying 10th place until the final days of the...

The future of Russia’s excursion in Georgia remains to be determined. But some conclusions can already be drawn:– Russian power is extraordinarily brutal in the post-Soviet era, as we have already...

As they were packing to leave for the famous fair in Sorochyntsi, did the women from Ivanychi think that they would have to perform in the open air under the scorching sun, sleep on the floor in a...

“There is something special in the soil. There is something about these straight streets that run towards the sea, this blue sky, the greenery of acacias and plane trees, these warm...