№3, (2009)

Confrontation between the head of government and the head of state, triggered by the latter, has shifted to the budgetary sphere. In his unscheduled televised address to the nation Viktor Yushchenko...

Few Kyivites know that toward the end of the 15th century this city was granted the Magdeburg Rights (also known as Magdeburg Law) by Grand Duke Alexander of Lithuania. Few Lithuanians know that...

On Jan. 27, 1944, the residents of Leningrad, this large, well-known city on the Neva River, finally heard on the radio the words they had been waiting to hear for 900 horrible days and nights...

SIMFEROPOL—Artek, an international children recreation center , has long had a chronic fever. Nearly every spring Russian media filled the informational space with “news” of its demise, and every...

The unique project “Electronic library of Ukraine (ELibUkr): setting up knowledge centers in Ukrainian universities” was launched in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on Jan. 26, 2009. ELibUkr aims at facilitating...

Despite the financial crisis Ukrainians show no signs of slowing down their consumption rate. In fact, they are stepping it up, as evidenced by the direct sales market. At present, it has a...

Hard facts have been established, revealing the horrible truth about the death of small inmates of an orphanage in downtown Zaporizhia 75 years ago. The city learned the tragic story after...

On Jan. 23, 2009, President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine issued the decree “On Declassifying, Publishing, and Studying Archival Documents Linked to the Ukrainian National Liberation Struggle,...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has recently presented in Kyiv its first external assessment of the situation with Ukraine’s policy and legislation on competitiveness...

On the Sunday evening of December 28, 2008, Russia TV channel announced live the personality chosen as symbol of the nation. In a three-month-long nationwide Internet and SMS vote, the public chose...

Ukraine’s pro-European choice is beyond doubt now. However, we have to take a series of well-thought-out and consistent steps that will lead to our EU membership. One of these steps is Ukraine’s NATO...

The world closely followed the events in the Swiss city of Davos, hoping to hear about a way to save the world economy. Observers note, however, that the hopes pinned on the Davos wise men may fail....

The current economic situation is becoming increasingly reminiscent of what happened in the mid-1990s, regardless of the shows put up by the powers that be on television, in which prefabricated...

Poets are not afraid of Eternity. Each of them has their own one. The element of water is eternity for the Ukrainian-American poet Yurii Lazirko. This year the author, who is well-known in the...

(Conclusion. For beginning, see The Day No. 2) Bohdan-Ihor Antonych’s poems were published along with overtly anti-Soviet works of Spyrydon Cherkasenko and Borys Lysiansky. Ohiienko was creating...