№29, (2006)

Starting next year, only married couples with an average monthly gross family income below 5,000 hryvnias, assessed over the previous six months, will be eligible for one-time childbirth benefits....

Bruce JACKSON, president of the Project on Transitional Democracies, is a frequent visitor to Ukraine. He has an excellent understanding of both American and Ukrainian foreign policies. Our readers...

SCHOOL FOR A LADY Lady, a school for girls, established in 2000 and modeled on the pre-Revolutionary College for Noble Maidens, is located in Boiarka, a suburb of Kyiv. The school, both outside and...

No matter what scholars say, I am convinced that the roots of civilization began growing not when the first state was formed, and not when the first war erupted from a dispute about a fruit tree...

On Wednesday evening during the briefing at the Presidential Secretariat that followed a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, President Viktor Yushchenko answered some questions....

The main event of the year for readers — the Lviv Publishers’ Forum — took place on a day with a fateful number — Sept. 13. That is the exact number of years that publishers, book-selling...

Various exhibits are held every day, so no news here. These are mostly commercial ventures with some people selling and others buying, and contracts being signed. So what was the deal here? With a...

Many people think that same-sex education is grossly outdated. Some, including experts at the Ministry of Education, are convinced that it is alien to our mentality. Not everyone, however, is...

It looks as though Ukraine has embarked on a new stage in its relations with the North Atlantic alliance after Viktor Yanukovych’s visit to Brussels. The impression is that relations between Kyiv and...

Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych’s second visit to Brussels turned out to be the exact opposite of his first visit there last week. Whereas the first could be described as anti-Atlantic, the second...

Not all Ukrainian children like going to school. Long hours of sitting at desks, packed classes in urban schools, noise, and lack of one-on-one attention from teachers can dampen a child’s ardent...

In early October a large delegation of Dutch entrepreneurs is coming to Kyiv. They are expected to hold talks with their Ukrainian counterparts and visit enterprises in various sectors of the economy...

Oberammergau is one of the most beautiful spas in the Bavarian Alps with its crystal clear mountain air, unique architecture, fantastic quantity and variety of flowers, and the complete absence of...

Chornobyl and caricatures would seem to be incompatible things. Caricatures are funny, but poking fun at Chornobyl would never occur to any of the globe’s inhabitants. But 252 caricaturists from 45...

The visit of Ukraine’s Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych to Moscow on Sept. 22 was sort of a test for concreteness. A few days before in Brussels, the Ukrainian prime minister had mostly talked about...