№28, (2005)

The history of Ukrainian-Russian cultural relations is full of dramatic, contradictory, and occasionally tragic pages. It is not easy to read: one must analyze and reconsider much in our peoples’...

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...

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...

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...

2006 marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Mykola Mykolayovych Myklukho-Maklai [Nikolai Miklukho-Maklai]. In recognition of his outstanding impact on science, UNESCO commemorated the 150th...

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...

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’...

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...

There was an unusual holiday celebrated the weekend before last in Kyiv’s theme park: Father’s Day. How often is it that you see more than 10 fathers with children in a single park? Since children...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Shortly before its dismissal, the Ukrainian cabinet decided to deny the regional authorities an opportunity to build up their image in the eyes of the electorate. Now they can no longer play a...

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...