№27, (2008)

LONDON – There is a powerful narrative today about how many young European Muslims are susceptible to terrorism, how Islam leads to radicalization, and how Muslims, because of their creed, choose to...

It looks as though it will be some time before Kyiv learns to take advantage of opportunities arising from regional or international events, or the favor in which President Nicolas Sarkozy of...

“I would like to meet a pregnant girl without housing, employment, or support, but with problems.” This kind of ad will soon appear at bus stops and on public transport throughout Kyiv oblast,...

Anyone can hold a brush, but few can wield it so masterfully as to create paintings that even the president of Ukraine is eager to buy. The Kyiv artist Olena Lonska is one of the chosen few. Since...

Even 20 years ago few of us could imagine Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan competing in one group for a trip to the World Cup. Decades ago we could only fantasize what it would be like if soccer...

At the ceremony to launch the book James Mace: Your Dead Chose Me, held during the 15th Lviv Forum of Publishers, the American scholar’s widow, Natalia Dziubenko-Mace, said her husband was eager to...

The world-famous film director Krzysztof Zanussi is completing the joint Ukrainian-Polish movie Serce na dloni (A Heart in Your Hand), starring the distinguished Ukrainian actor Bohdan Stupka. The co...

On a recent weekend an extraordinary event took place in Vyshhorod, a city in Kyiv oblast. This was an open-air sculpture exhibit dedicated to the 1,020th anniversary of the christening of Rus’-...

An Austrian consortium is developing a project aimed at the reconstruction and further use of the castles in Lviv oblast. At the moment Austrian experts are researching two castles that are located...

Sept. 16 1651: The Ukrainian Cossacks launch an uprising in Bila Tserkva to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the terms of the treaty signed with the Polish Kingdom. 1914: The first Ukrainian...

The main character in this article is the renowned pilot and aircraft designer Petro Nesterov, who was destined to live a very short life, but long enough for his name to go down in world aviation...

Petro Honchar and his wife Nina Matviienko, People’s Artist of Ukraine, have conceived something that has never been done before in Ukraine. They organized a folk art festival for children, called...

The Ukrainian Black Sea region is a territory that has been greatly changed by man. Dating to the times of Aratta, Oriana, Olvia, and Artania, the history of this land is incomparably rich. This is...

It is incredible but true: the much-publicized announcement that the president of Ukraine is considering a strong-arm scenario of resolving the political crisis, which was not issued by a mouthy MP...

(Continued from the issue No. 26) “DAYS ARE PASSING” In 1921 a collection of Vasyl Vyshyvany’s poems called Mynaiut dni (Days Are Passing) was published in Vienna. These melancholy words reveal the...