№27, (2000)

In June 1931 a still young man was slowly dying of an insidious lung disease in Austria’s Winnerwald sanitarium. His name, Vyacheslav Lypynsky, was then forbidden to be mentioned in Ukraine, the...

Ukrainian Internal Affairs Minister Yuri Kravchenko finally appeared in parliament with his progress report in the case of the missing journalist Heorhy Gongadze, 20 days after his disappearance. The...

US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer in his speech (in Ukrainian) at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy on October 3 officially said farewell to Ukraine to which, as he confessed, he would like to return....

On October 5, President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine completed a two-day working visit to Turkmenistan. The President was accompanied by Oleksandr Chaly, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Serhiy...

The three day visit to Ukraine of the speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain Betty Boothroyd (see photo) that took place last week can hardly be called ineffective. First of all, Mrs....

Over the past several years, Ukraine’s political life has been rich in tempestuous, controversial, and fateful events, in many ways predetermining this country’s future. The presidential campaign,...

That the tax and land codes evoke an incomparably greater interest in this country than the civil code, already submitted to parliament, seems to confirm yet again the sad fact that the question “How...

Every year we discover that this time we have a budget bill better than the previous year’s. Of late, it has started being described as “the best,” “balanced,” “submitted on time,” and one allowing...

On the eve of the professional holiday of machine builders, Verkhovna Rada presented the latter an invaluable gift. It passed a law on altering the governmental tactics of automobile market...

“ Three years ago I dropped by to get some flour. When the old man took off his flour-dusted hat, I saw a jay’s green-blue feather in it. At the same time, querulous Grandma Paraska came to the mill...

When Ivan Fedorenko, chairman of the State Committee for Youth Policies, Sports, and Tourism as well as president of the National Olympic Committee, was meeting the last group of our Olympic athletes...

However, to say that the Conservatory’s Small Hall hosted a concert of romances created by the great Ukrainian composer would mean saying nothing. It was a true musical drama about two young people...

Our team overcame the traditionally hard Armenian barrier only with great difficulty. Problems in defending the center and the absence of constructive players there explains the great number of...

In the world of today, accessories play first fiddle in personal image- making. After abandoning the dictate of any uniform style, fashion is now set, first of all, to underline individuality. What...

An exhibition called Variations of Genius, held at the Art Center on Kostelna Street, was based on the long-tested idea of bringing the works of the mentally ill and so-called normal artists together...