№30, (2002)

In a second attempt this year to secure another tranche under the extended financing facility program (EFF) the Ukrainian delegation headed by Vice Premier Vasyl Rohovy met with IMF management in...

Despite the multitude of Chinese merchandise and snack bars in Ukraine, China remains terra incognita for many Ukrainian citizens. In the early 1990s, intensive “shuttle” business contacts with the...

Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller arrived, contrary to rumors, in Lviv on October 4 for an economic forum. Just a few days before, the Lviv meeting with the head of Poland’s government had seemed...

MARIGOLDS GROW ON ROCK, TOO When she was a small girl, Tetiana read the book Marigolds Grow on Rock, Too and, of course, could not have known that decades later, having been married, divorced,...

Last Tuesday, the opposition announced the date for its next political protests. According to the leaders of the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, and the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc, they will take...

The leadership of NATO is not preparing to cancel the joint NATO-Ukraine military maneuvers planned for next week, despite the fact that an evaluation has not yet taken place on the consequences for...

Thousands of Lvivites experienced a spiritual upsurge last week as the Shroud of Turin arrived and was put on display. Or rather, its copy was, but experts insist it is the best of all seven made at...

October 8: 1886. The Kharkiv Public Library received its first readers. 1938. The first government of autonomous Transcarpathia, which on December 30, 1938 became Carpato-Ukraine, was formed in...

Once the forest between the villages of Datyn and Zamshany was like home for all those young Ukrainian insurgents. Quite a few of them would find their last repose there... At a forest cemetery one...

Ukraine traditionally celebrates Teacher’s Day on the first Sunday of October. About a third of this country’s population are directly related to this holiday, either as teachers or students....

In the nearest future, international Sea Launch space program satellite-carrying rockets will be put into orbit not only from the Odysseus floating platform in the Pacific Ocean but also from the...

The leader of the Our Ukraine political bloc Viktor Yushchenko does not rule out the possibility of negotiations with the authorities, although he has announced that if this does not occur it is...

Trying to figure out the plot and the original sources of the numerous legends about underground passages, we must not only dig into the bulk of rock, where we will come across the forgotten vestiges...

“There were two items on the coordination board’s agenda. One was about redistributing portfolios in Verkhovna Rada committees and drawing up the required documents, the other focused on the...

The weekend before last the Chirldbirth Without Fear seminar took place in the Crimean village of Partenit in the framework of the Freedom of Choice project. This is part of a joint program of the...