№3, (2005)

A four-day conference entitled “Ukraine: The Prospects” began on January 31 in the UK, drawing leading experts, politicians, and diplomats from Ukraine and EU member states, including UK Ambassador...

Such was the inference President Viktor Yushchenko voiced at the World Economic Forum. He returned from Davos Sunday night after taking part in the forum (Jan. 28-29). His highest priority was...

Raising wage is now a cardinal problem due to the promises that politicians have been dishing out in the past few months. “The future of our whole economy now depends on how the problem of wages will...

Last Friday the Ukrainian parliament hosted quite a representative round table on the formation of a governmental-parliamentary coalition. To discuss parliamentary support for the Cabinet, a problem...

The process of forming the new government and opposition is in high gear. Representatives of the latter are presumably drawing support from the population of the three regions that voted against...

February 1. 1945. The Kharkiv Ordzhonikidze Tractor Plant started serial production of tractors. 1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Rukh People’s Movement of Ukraine. February 2...

The Crimea is the scene of a bitter dispute over the erection of a monument to “the Big Three.” The Communist Party held a rally the other day on Simferopol’s central square in front of the Council...

Although the results and lessons of the Orange Revolution have already been discussed at length, the Kyiv Mohyla Academy’s School of Business has just made a discovery: the experience of...

The awards ceremony for the winners of the All-Ukraine Journalistic Excellence Competition on the “Media, Interethnic Tolerance, and Consolidation of Society” took place at the Teachers’ House in...

Addressing a briefing in Kyiv last Friday, the Prosecutor-General of Ukraine, Sviatoslav Piskun, announced that all cases against Yuliya Tymoshenko have been dismissed. He also revealed that the...

Yesterday morning brought unfortunate news. Varvara Tymofiyivna Yushchenko, mother of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko, died after a protracted illness. Varvara Yushchenko was born on November...

Last Thursday the Party of Freedom, led by Yevhen Marchuk, held a meeting of its executive committee in Kyiv. A highlight of the agenda was the party congress that will take place on February 19 in...

In 1994 Stephen Spielberg made one of his most famous films, Schindler’s List, a requiem for the millions of Holocaust victims. Dedicated to those who miraculously survived, Spielberg’s film received...

Was there anything special about the Ukrainian president’s visit to Moscow, marking his first foreign visit? Russian experts focused primarily on the Ukrainian leader’s decision to appoint Yulia...

On January 25, the ethnic festival “Krayina mriy” (Dreamland) was held at the Ivan Honchar Museum in Kyiv. The brainchild of Oleh Skrypka, the festival presented Adam and Eve, a fantasy play staged...