№3, (2010)

One of Ukrainian TV channels recently showed an interesting report about, so to speak, to the ideological education of youth. It dealt with the following dilemma: should a portrait of the current...

History would have been a very predictable, linear, and easily describable process and would be easy to model with the help of available tools of hard sciences but for ... memory. The memory...

The head of the International Movement of Ukrainians “Returning Home,” Valerii Lytvynov, founded the Ukrainian Association’s “Slavic Cultural Center” in Genoa (Italy) in 2007. A year ago it joined...

LONDON – Reading Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father, the US president’s beautifully written reflections on his early life and identity, most people are struck by his cool and intellectual approach...

Den published the first interview with Lilia Yemelianenko, one of the leaders of the volunteer cat-and-dog salvation movement, on Dec. 5, 2008. After this publication she became a regular contributor...

One of his embroidered shirts has gone to Britain. His own stock of clothes includes a total of six embroidered shirts. He is good at painting and embroidering. His mother Liudmyla recalls how the...

1657: Swedish envoys arrive in Chyhyryn to make an alliance with Bohdan Khmelnytsky on the condition that Cossack Ukraine is recognized by Sweden within the boundary lines of three voivodeships (...

British Council, Euro-2012, and young architectsThe British Council in Ukraine and the Kyiv organization of Uk­rai­ne’s Union of Architects announced a competition among young architects and...

We keep hearing campaign slogans. One is reminded of some dating back to the previous presidential election. One is strongly tempted to make comparisons. Below are two media-covered campaign sce­...

Any populated area is interesting in its own way, regardless of its size and administrative status (e.g., city, town, township, village). This time my story is about Bohuslav, a village in Pavlohrad...

Minsk – The run-off presidential election in Ukraine is scheduled for February 7. As we know, this time it is the final grapple between Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yanu­ko­vych. The first thing...

Will Tymoshenko overtake Yanuko­vych? Today this is perhaps the most burning question. The 10-percent gap is hanging over as the sword of Damocles. The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc takes courage, promises a...

I have recently reread one of Pokalchuk’s early prose works entitled Ozerny viter (Lake Wind), an extremely lyrical legend, dedicated to his native Volhynia. This is a story of the immortality of...

One can sometimes hear, even from young people, a commonplace remark that Ukrainians were given independence like manna from heaven, i.e., for free. They made no serious efforts, you see, to...

The arrest of a man in Sumy oblast for cruel treatment of a dog has evoked a wide response among animal rights advocates. There have been no such precedents in Ukraine, despite the fact that for a...