№29, (2008)

Long ago academics proved that a country, 70 percent of whose citizens do not have a secondary technical education, has no future, Volodymyr Halytsky, director of the State Employment Center of...

An Old Testament sage correctly stated that there is nothing new under the sun. The same is true of Ukraine’s contemporary aspirations to integrate into Euro­pe. If you look back three and a half...

The residents of Chernihiv are continuing the year-long celebration of the 1,100th anniversary of their city, which was first mentioned in the chronicles in 907 A.D. AN ODD ANNIVERSARY...

The residents of the village of Vovkiv in Pustomytiv raion – 20 kilometers from Lviv – have launch­ed their own tourist itinerary. Picturesque hills, streams, unique flora, miraculously preserved...

The problem of bilingualism in Ukraine has long been a way of speculating on the awareness of the Ukrainian population. Some politicians try to win voter support by promising to protect the...

Odesa already has the most top-quality hotels in Ukraine. Twelve more are under construction for Euro 2012, eight of which will be five-star and the others, four-star. Ten existing hotel complexes...

Finesse, topicality, and social meaning. These things can be combined, as has been proved by the The Day’s photo competition traditionally held at the Uk­rai­nian Home...

On Sept. 19, 2008, the Znannia Society, Ukraine’s largest scholarly-educational organization, celebrated its 60th anniversary. Founded in Soviet times, this organization was responsible for...

Berlin – Corruption in Germany is considered a serious crime, and law-enforcement agencies treat it with all due gravity. There are several agencies that battle corruption independently of each other...

PARIS — In the aftermath of Ukraine’s new/old political crisis, the European Union is increasingly less enthusiastic about our country, as Brussels becomes more concerned about Kyiv’s Western...

Ukraine has again heard words of support for its Euro-Atlantic ambitions. This time they were said in the lobby of the UN General Assembly in New York, where the world’s leaders were gathering for...

(For Part One, see previous issue, No. 28)THE IDEAS OF EARLY MARXISM After the French Revolution, the so-called third estate (i.e., taxpayers, as distinct from the nobility and the clergy) came to...

Erast Huculak, the well-known Ukrainian Canadian activist, recently donated the sum of $100,000 to help expand Ostroh Academy. This is not the first time that this university has received an...

Utilizing his decades-long pedagogical experience, the Uk­rai­nian educator Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918-1970) wrote 35 books, more than 600 articles, and 1,500 tales, stories, and no­vel­las for...

Donetsk city councilmen have refused to remove the symbols and attributes of totalitarianism that are still present on the streets of the miners’ capital. At issue are the monuments to Soviet...