№3, (2006)

Ukraine’s European Choice is the name of a special creative course designed for students in grades 10 and 11. This year the course is being completed by the third generation of Kyiv students. The...

In this second installment of Stanislav Kulchytsky’s study of world empires and their role in Ukraine’s history, the historian focuses on the Russian Empire. Continued from the previous issue...

“Treason” has always been one of the most commonly used words in the vocabulary of Ukrainian politicians. Sometimes, however, it is applied to those who do not deserve this appellation. The t-...

Bruce Jackson, president of the non-governmental organization Project on Transitional Democracies, is well-known in expert circles, and numerous politicians keep the doors of their offices open to...

The end of last week may turn out to be truly momentous for our country, as its final days were marked by two interconnected and equally contradictory events. On Thursday Ukraine learned about its...

Whenever you fill up your European compact car’s gas tank, or that of your American SUV, you pay as much as a Russian schoolteacher earns in a month. And every time you pay, you subsidize a regime...

February 7 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR decreed to form the “workers’ and peasants’ militia” (police). 1995. The Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership...

Interfax Ukraine reports that at its first session the President’s National Council on Culture and Spirituality supported the idea to establish a state center combining a research institute,...

The following letter arrived at the office of Larysa Ivshyna. Dear Larysa, I am writing to you from Kuwait. My name is Vsevolod Palahin, a Ukrainian government official on temporary assignment abroad...

During Gerard Depardieu’s two-day visit to Kyiv the distinguished French actor met with President Yushchenko at his home in the village of Bezradychi in Kyiv oblast. The actor was presented with a...

Kyiv’s Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Art Museum is hosting an exhibit entitled Adam Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets as part of the cultural program “Year of Poland in Ukraine.” The organizers say that...

The Prosecutor-General’s Office of Ukraine is still making efforts to trace the plotters of the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze and to track down Oleksiy Pukach, former chief of the Interior...

Yaroslav Davydovych, the head of the Central Election Commission has urged the National Interpol Bureau in Ukraine to furnish information about those registered as parliamentary candidates, www....

In late January, when a Ukrainian government delegation was visiting the Slovak Republic, Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda gave his Ukrainian counterpart Yuriy Yekhanurov “Proposals on Helping Ukraine...

Last weekend the Zoodim pet supermarket located on the Osokorky housing estate in Kyiv held its latest action called “Find Yourself a Friend.” Almost every weekend the organizers, volunteers of the...