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“At this stage, the United Nations is in possession of no evidence that the Ukrainian government has sent any shipments of materiel to the UNITA insurgent movement. But the latter is known to keep...

For Ukraine, the start of the third millennium was marked by the sharpening of a number of problems posing a clear and present danger to its national security. In addition to their negative effect on...

Never throughout the history of Ukrainian parliamentary government has the Left suffered such a crushing defeat at the hands of the Center Right. To be more exact, it is too early to speak in formal...

Last Thursday the parliamentary majority took one more step toward a joint decision on the package election of a new parliamentary leadership. Verkhovna Rada Deputy Speaker Viktor Medvedchuk released...

Petro and Nadiya Mayik, a young journalist couple living in the border town of Chop, decided to start a family-type children’s home in 1989. Nadiya started working for the district newspaper Leninske...

Frankly speaking, when the telephone rang at the newspaper’s sporst desk and the person at the other end of the line began to talk about some water because of which Ukraine’s national soccer team had...

Serhiy Krymsky is a philosopher and legendary figure. A scholar of world reputation, his lectures are said to have been attended even by hardened students who seldom show up for anything....

“The center of attention was also the object of our admiration. Oksana Krovytska sang beautifully as Cio-Cio-San. The voice works; its sincerity grips the ear, and it is tempered by audacious...

“We are Ukrainians. These are our Traditions.” These symbolic lines end a Christmas commercial of one the political ads. It offers an idyllic picture: a traditional log cabin, khata . The master of...

What kind of material can one make portraits from? Practically any. The past few years have also added amber to this long list, to be more exact, the amber mined in Rivne oblast. Portraits made of...

Classical music and modern classic performance are two notions that stand beyond categories like exotica for instance as the case is with the hit parade. However, to tell the truth: the public that...

On January 21, Ukrainian National Opera hosted a premiere of The Firebird ballet by Igor Stravinsky (staged by Viktor Lytvynov, scenography, and costumes by Mariya Levytska). The audience was...

We have already got used to expecting the works of Professor Natalia Yakovenko, both journal articles and books, to produce the effect of wiping off the dust of customary stereotypes in perceiving...

In periods of social upheaval, every nation faces a stern test in quality: is it a chaotic collection of confused individuals or a structured society capable of not only surviving in the hardest...

Everything seemed more or less to have been settled — on the eve of celebrating the New Year and immediately after Ukraine began a determined attempt to normalize its relations with the Council of...