№26, (2004)

The talks between the Ukrspetsexport state arms sales firm and Nuri Shaveiz, Secretary General of the Iraqi Defense Ministry, during his official visit to Kyiv were held behind closed doors, of...

The alignment of forces supporting one candidate or another has already taken shape in the Crimea. While the Slavic Council of the Crimea, recently recreated on the basis of the Crimean branches of...

September 29, 2004, marks the centenary of Nikolai Ostrovsky. If the Soviet Union still existed, this jubilee would have been celebrated with much pomp. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union,...

October 12. 1920. Soviet Russia and Ukraine, on the one hand, and Poland on the other signed an agreement on an armistice and preliminary peace conditions in Riga. 1960. Nikita Khrushchev pounded his...

European parliamentarians have positively assessed the technical side of preparations for the presidential elections in Ukraine. “Preparations are going quite well. We don’t have anything negative to...

In the early 1920s Berlin saw the release of a book now deliberately forgotten, which was written by a world-famous philosopher, who spoke about the start of a new epoch in the development of mankind...

The first festival-fair “Ukrayinske Salo-2004” [Ukrainian Fatback 2004] was definitely a success. Lasting two days, it attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and not only helped further...

The National Opera of Ukraine played Verdi’s Aida Sunday to mark Chief Choirmaster Lev Venedyktov’s 80th birthday. He has been with the Kyiv Opera for 50 years, taking part in many world classical...

The Day congratulated the special winners of its annual photo contest last Thursday. The jury, made up of 1,173 spectators (the exact number of ballots cast during the exhibit at the Ukrainian Home...

Ukraine should join NATO, declared US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz during his recent visit to Poland. In fact, this is the first public statement by a top US official, who spoke about the...

The system of trade discounts has existed for over a century. One of them is locally known as “secondhand” and has been a plentiful source of clothing and other items for Ukrainians for the past...

The parliamentary ad hoc investigative commission seeking the cause of the illness of People’s Deputy and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko has fallen short of expectations. After completing a...

This festival was special in its own way, for it may be considered as a workshop seminar. The program of “Ukrayinski Alternatyvy” [Ukrainian Alternatives], which included screenings of legendary...

The mysterious ranking lists that UEFA and the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) regularly publish for national teams and clubs, respectively, are often the objects...

Recently the Artek International Children’s Center welcomed the first group of 300 children from Beslan, the North Ossetian town that was shattered by the recent school hostage crisis. Ukraine’s...