№3, (2006)

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...

Where can a village schoolteacher obtain information for a thematic lesson commemorating James Mace? The administration of an elementary school in Vinnytsia oblast recently asked our editors this...

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...

Where’s Zalizniak, that soul sincere?Where does he rest at last? The times are foul! The hangman reigns, And none recalls the past. (Taras Shevchenko, “The Haidamaks”) The national-liberation...

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...

The Penguin-MS is the name of a unique velo-ark invented by Leonid Mykula, a celebrated adventurer from Kharkiv, who plans to travel on his invention to the South Pole this year. Mykula, 63, is...

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...

Several years ago, when I was talking with the Finnish painter Harri Junnila, I asked him where he had learned such good Russian. Junnila explained that he wanted to study Swedish in school, but that...

“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-...

Every now and then, announcements about splashy projects accompany the very cautious and timid enlivening of the filmmaking process in Ukraine. Last week the cinematographic community was told about...

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 cast members of Sergei Ryzhkov’s “Moscow Circus on Ice” are between the ages of 16 and 30. The budget is fantastic: six million dollars and the show’s creator says it is unmatched in the world....

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....

On a quiet, sunny, and bitterly cold morning, passersby hurrying on their way to work or the grocery store glanced in horror at the motionless figure of a man lying spread-eagled on the trampled snow...

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...