№26, (2005)

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...

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,...

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...

On September 1 thousands of schoolchildren across Ukraine poured into the streets to celebrate the most important holiday of their young lives, known here as the Day of Knowledge, which marks the...

As one way of affirming the close relations that are developing between the Ukrainian and Polish governments, the two countries have established the “Sarmatia” joint venture to build an extension of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Last Thursday Russia’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Viktor Chernomyrdin, added some “pep” to Russian- Ukrainian relations, delivering tough talk on three issues: the gas price hike, the Black Sea Fleet...

On September 1 General Gennadiy Moskal, Deputy Minister of Ukraine for Internal Affairs, assured the PACE delegation investigating the alleged disappearance of newborns from Kharkiv’s maternity...

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...

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...