№27, (2008)

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...

Leonid Kravchuk is known as “the sly fox of Ukrainian politics” for his political flair and intuition. He always correctly grasps the significance of every moment. Ukraine’s first president is in...

The findings of a recent study entitled “Ukraine’s Future as Seen by Children” are further proof that adults and children in Ukraine live on different planets. Our children appear to be much more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Now that the 21st Moscow International Book Fair has just ended, experts’ predictions that this year’s book fair would be the biggest ever have panned out. Ticket sales (60 rubles, or 12 Ukrainian...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Olena Yablonska was 90 years old when her exhibit “Podykh svitla” (A Breath of Light) was launched. In her paintings we find what we constantly lack in our daily lives: an orchard, a tree outside...

(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...

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...