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The main goal of Ukrainian foreign policy will consist in “an active search for new, nonstandard approaches, instruments, and mechanisms for the implementation” of its foreign policy course, said...

Dramatic tones prevailed in the Week of Spanish Cinema completed last week in the Kyiv House of Cinematographers. However, for our viewer Spanish film still remains unexplored in many respects....

October 17: 1676. Poland and Turkey signed a peace treaty according to which Turkey retained Podillia and a part of Right-Bank Ukraine. 1961. The XXII CPSU Congress opened, authorizing the...

The budget adoption process, amendments to the Constitution, and the painfully constructive approach of the Cabinet to the parliamentary majority continue to determine the political temperature of...

October 9 to 11 Kyiv hosted a Strategy of Ukraine’s National Security in Context of World Community’s Experience international conference, organized by the National Institute of Strategic Studies and...

Is it easy to play against someone like yourself? This question has arisen for the second time this year. It did for the first time in February-March, when our everlasting champion played a Champions...

The recent Yugoslavian events have been much spoken of as the last democratic revolution in Europe. Perhaps, not quite right: revolutions, including democratic ones, still have a good chance of...

The graphic poster has lost its place in the sun in the largest cities; it has to make do with being displayed in half lit galleries and museums. This is probably why Roman Kalarus’s display at the...

Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko said on October 11 he thinks it inadmissible that the State Tax Administration (STA) should have unilaterally disclosed the “arithmetic debate” over accountancy...

Five years ago the British Antarctic Service (BAS) handed over to Ukraine, free of charge, its Faraday Research Base on Galindez Island of the Argentine Archipelago. It is now called the Ukrainian...

On October 15, exactly 385 years ago, a well-off resident of Kyiv, Halshka Hulevychyvna, handed over her land and structures in Podil to the Kyiv Brotherhood so that they could establish a school for...

Last week’s interview with German Ambassador Dietmar StЯdemann misquoted the diplomat’s comment on a Franco-German planning document as follows: “I think that one should regard such sandbox games as...

At the Customs Union summit in Kazakh capital of Astana an agreement was signed on the transformation of this organization into the Eurasian Economic Community. The word economic seems to me...

The village of Yaropolets was called Yaropolche before the nineteenth century. It is situated 120 kilometers northwest of Moscow, near the town of Volokolamsk. It is there that our “gallant hetman...