№26, (2005)

It has long been common knowledge that some nieces of the late Pope John Paul II reside in Ternopil oblast. Recently, it was learned that our region is also home to the Rev. Pavlo Kohut, a close...

Richard G. Lugar, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said last Monday that he has drawn up a bill to repeal the Jackson-Vanik Amendment for Ukraine and also expressed the hope...

Last Friday morning at the Pyrohiv Open-Air Museum of Folk Architecture was the scene of special activities. Instead of the customary calm and silence, the museum was bustling with about 400...

The 1999 Fiat Ducato from Germany is in mint condition: after all, German roads are much superior to Ukraine’s. The minivan’s design and interior have been modified to transport handicapped...

Late last week the reprivatization process turned into a series of juicy and highly-politicized sca ndals involving thousands of workers. Media coverage has turned these conflicts into a favorite...

I traveled all the way to Yalta and its “Kazka” [Fairy Tale] Zoo with the sole purpose of having my photo taken with the local lion cub. This would be impossible in Kyiv, where zoo animals are kept...

Last Tuesday the Moldovan government decreed that residents of Transdnistria can confirm their Moldovan nationality free of charge between September 11 and December 31, 2005, “according to a maximum...

This event might have happened ten years back when in the fall of 1995 the Ukrainian national team was ending its first official tour, vying in the 1995 European qualifiers. At the time, however,...

The US dollar exchange rate is on a downward curve in Ukraine. It has dropped by 10 kopiykas over the past several days, jeopardizing Ukrainians’ life savings, which means that those who had $1,000...

For the first time ever the government has finally admitted that it has failed in its mission to secure unprecedented levels of foreign investment in the country’s economy. This follows from a recent...

There are about 15,000 monuments in Ukraine. Among the 56 outstanding ones that need urgent renovation is the Fortress of St. Elizabeth in the city of Kirovohrad. It deservedly occupies a place...

In the last while France has been connected to many pessimistic thoughts concerning Ukraine’s European prospects: the “old Europe,” scared by “Polish plumbers,” has turned down the European...

Today you don’t have to travel to Montreux to hear jazz. Dmytro Kyseliov had the brilliant idea of organizing a jazz festival in Koktebel; this is the third time his idea has come to fruition on the...

In his speech commemorating Ukraine’s Independence Day, the president focused on at least two crucial points. He promised to continue the government’s personnel renewal, during which those who “think...

September 6, 1672. Hetman Petro Doroshenko took Kamyanets-Podilsky. 1994. Ukraine and China signed a treaty on cooperation in navigation, mail, and e-mail services. September 7, 1989. The organizing...