№27, (2004)

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...

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 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...

This momentous question is once again front-page news. As reported earlier, the Constitutional Court ruled that the draft law on constitutional amendments, known as Bill No. 4180, complies with the...

Ukraine’s nuclear power engineering will continue being developed. Premier Viktor Yanukovych reaffirmed this on Saturday when he attended the ceremony of launching the fourth power unit at the Rivne...

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...

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...

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...

Seventy-seven-year-old Volodymyra Adevnina from Ternopil has an unusual hobby for her age. She makes quaint figurines of animals, fairy-tale characters, flowers, miniature replicas of medieval...

According to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), one in twelve children in the world dies before the age of five. A recently released UNICEF report says that in most countries that...

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...

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...

Good-bye, Lenin! was named Europe’s best film last year, and we increasingly often observe young people sporting T-shirts or windbreakers with cynical legends like “USSR”; every second Ukrainian...

The other day Ukraine officially denounced the Ukraine-Uzbekistan bilateral treaty on the prevention of dual citizenship, which until now did not allow Crimean Tatar repatriants, citizens of...

Last Wednesday the village of Pasychna, Starosyniavsky district, Khmelnytsky oblast, received encouraging news from Spain. “Liudmyla Tymoshchuk just phoned. She said she gave an organ recital in a...