№28, (2005)

When the president of Ukraine was signing the Declaration of Unity together with the Verkhovna Rada chairman, acting prime minister, and leaders of parliamentary factions, his new state secretary was...

The 12th Book Forum has been underway in Lviv for two days, gathering some 600 participants, including over 290 publishing companies, 80 book distributors, 60 libraries, and dozens of other...

Last Friday, on the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of the Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, Ukraine’s State Secretary Oleh Rybachuk ordered the gate opened on Kyiv’s Bankova Street so...

President Viktor Yushchenko was hardly in a festive mood when he arrived in New York for the UN’s 60th anniversary celebrations. The domestic political situation on the eve of his visit was far less...

September 20, 1919. The UNR Army and Nestor Makhno’s rebel regiments signed a treaty on common struggle against Denikin’s army. 1975. The Kuban oil tanker, the largest in Ukraine, was launched at the...

After last year’s presidential elections, I wrote about the objective difficulties a society faces when it leaves the phase of revolutionary development and enters a period of constructive...

According to the Association of Crimean Karaims, there are about 2,000 Karaims throughout the world, including 1,100 in Ukraine and 240 in Yevpatoriya. Since this Crimean city used to be the global...

According to a long-standing tradition, the National Theater of Opera and Ballet launched its new season with Ukrainian classics, including Mykola Lysenko’s Taras Bulba. Volodymyr Kozhukhar conducted...

In August 2005 Ukraine’s real gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 1.6 percent as compared to the same period last year, while GDP growth in January-August was 2.8 percent, compared to last year’...

On September 14 Yulia Tymoshenko made it clear that she and Viktor Yushchenko will not even be following “parallel courses.” In an interview with the Associated Press she said that Yushchenko “was...

In recent years many Orthodox churches and the church media affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have often used the term “canonical territory.” This term has proved to be a powerful...

The official exchange rate of $1.00/UAH5.05 is the optimal choice, announced National Bank of Ukraine head Volodymyr Stelmakh on September 15, adding that the NBU does not have sufficient grounds to...

This newspaper will celebrate its 9th anniversary September 29, at the Ukrainian Home, and the results of the seventh international photo contest, The Day 2005, will be summed up then. The exposition...

For a United Nations official to discuss reform of the international system is rather like an Englishman talking about the weather: it is a staple of daily conversation, but it always seems that real...

The scandals and rifts in the ruling team, witnessed by this country last week, marked not only the beginning of a political crisis but also changes in a number of principles, guidelines, and the...