№26, (2002)

There is nothing permanent under the sun, we tell ourselves, saying something we can no longer put to effective use. Still, there are people challenging that old truism. The gift of Empress Anna...

On Friday Leonid Kuchma greeted Ukraine’s Jews on Rosh Hashanah, the 5763rd New Year, and the coming autumnal feasts. The greeting says that Ukraine heartily greets its Jewish community deeply...

How effectively did the UN act in the aftermath of September 11? It did its best within the limits of its authority. No one was prepared for what happened, just as no one could have known what...

Leonid Kuchma’s initiatives set forth in his Independence Day message of August 24 have dramatically altered the national political landscape. Primarily, it is shifting the main political...

September 11 will mark the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the US. First of all, we must honor the memory of those killed in the airplanes, World Trade Center, and Pentagon. Yet, we must...

On the crest of the second wave of NATO expansion, the issue of Ukrainian cooperation with Central European countries is coming into ever sharper focus. The Ukrainian political leadership made it...

The following is an interview with a man whose social standing is known to most of us from history textbooks. His name is Mykhailo Karachevsky-Vovk, Grand Prince of Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Karachevo (a...

Cloning probably drew the most fire of debate in the past century. An opportunity to produce human clones divided the whole world Among those opposing the idea were not only most clergymen but also a...

A new trend is appearing on the world grain market this year with Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan gaining a firmer foothold and threatening to oust traditional exporters. Russia’s grain market...

Beyond any doubt, last Tuesday Ukrainian scientists had their day. Not so successful with clowning or deciphering the human genome, the rage of our day, they did well in experimenting with embryonic...

As Pavlo Sheparevych, head of the Simferopol Federation of Historical Fencing and organizer of the festival, said in an interview, over 250 fencers from 30 clubs in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, and...

A light gray haze had descended upon the earth during the night. It would stay for the rest of the day. It was as though a picture of life created in the summer by Ghirlandaio or Veronese had...

There is a group of enthusiasts who have traveled across Ukraine for a number of years, not by foot, cars, hitchhiking, but by canoe. These vessels must be handled with great care and have a markedly...

Russian Internal Affairs Minister PСtr Valuev’s edict [banning virtually all Ukrainian publications] of 1863 and the Ems Ukaz of 1876 [a secret imperial decree of Alexander II, prohibiting the import...

This is the twelfth time Gerhard BЗrtos, Austrian businessman, has visited Ukraine. In the generous Slavic way, the trip of the extravagant Austrian is aimed at overcoming our country’s negative...