№27, (2004)

Hopping on one leg, six-year-old Olia was telling her friend: “We slaughtered a hog, because we’re going to have a toloka! And we also made homebrew, but don’t tell anybody.” The girls are looking...

The view that the West is not interested in the Ukrainian military industrial complex (VPK) is now a hackneyed clich О . Yet last week’s visit by Thomas Pickering, Boeing senior vice-president for...

Until recently I was inclined to claim that, as soon as Ukrainebegan to live a normal cultural and political life, Shevchenko wouldcease to be an icon and a prophet and be “just” one of...

The idea of adding the historic center of Chernivtsi to the UNESCO World Heritage List is not a recent one, and the international conference entitled “Preserving and Using Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage...

On Monday First Vice-Premier and Finance Minister Mykola Azarov met with Ian Bogue of the European Union, who has just started his diplomatic mission in Ukraine. The vice-premier’s adviser Vitaly...

Tykha Bukhta (Quiet Bay), near the famous Crimean resort area of Koktebel, has once again made headlines with a controversy surrounding plot allocations to Crimean Tatars, which has been brewing...

The potato season is over. Although everything went routinely, this event deserves notice. Come to think of it, potatoes are a pillar of democracy and every other political system. Sacks full of...

The ice has finally melted: Polish writers and artists, who were born in Volyn and wrote about this heroic and fabulous land, are now on display at the Volyn Ethnography Museum. While we learned...

Last Wednesday Kyiv’s International Exhibition Center kicked off high-tech week. Producers exhibited new specialized television broadcasting equipment and technologies. A 300-sq. m. area was devoted...

NATO will soon send 300 military instructors to Iraq. This is the bottom line of a recent informal meeting of alliance defense ministers in Romania. This decision must have come the hard way, given...

A noted economist walked up to me at The Day’s photo exhibit commemorating the newspaper’s eighth anniversary, and said with a pleasant smile: “So you’ve become a champion of sociology (he was...

On the Saturday before last a monument to commemorate the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who were killed on August 2, 1914, was unveiled near the town of Horodok, Khmelnytsky oblast. The...

October 19. 1653. The Muscovite Tsar’s embassy headed by Buturlin left for Pereyaslav to administer to the Zaporozhzhian Host the oath of loyalty to the Tsar. 1989. The founding session of the...

To recall when Ukraine’s national soccer team last topped its qualification group’s list, this writer had to strain his brains and even look up some reference sources. It turned out that our side...

Last week the European Commission presented its Tempus program to schools of higher learning in Ukraine, which is aimed at helping participating countries develop their educational systems. Program...