№29, (2008)

Three years ago, after President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine signed his July edict entitled “On Measures to Improve the Performance of Central and Local Authorities in Ensuring Equal Rights and...

The law confirming the prestige of Ukrainian miners was long awaited. The new legislation is meant to ease the coal miners’ daily burden and improve their lives. It envisages a revision of the pay...

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...

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...

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...

The town hall in Kamianets-Podilsky is the oldest surviving city hall in Ukraine. These days, specialists have been hard at work restoring the dome of this stone structure, which will be crowned with...

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...

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...

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...

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society,” Mark Twain once quipped. You cannot disagree with that statement because fashion is power – the power of clothes, which...

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...

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...

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...

On Sept. 29 we will mark a tragic date in Ukraine’s history – the 67th anniversary of the tragedy of Babyn Yar. In September 1941, during the German occupation of Kyiv, over 100,000 people were shot...

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...