№30, (2004)

On November 1, 2004, Cardinal Liubomyr Huzar, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and Maryan Yavorksy, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine celebrated a liturgy for the dead...

This year’s November 7 marks an anniversary of what is known as either the Great October Socialist Revolution or the Bolshevik October coup — depending on how you look at it. Be that it may, the...

Last Friday it was reported that the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) lowered the upper limit of the hard currency cash that banks can buy during the trading session on the interbank stock market from...

Usually a great stickler for punctuality, Petro Symonenko was almost 25 minutes late for a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine news agency because of gridlock outside the Verkhovna Rada. At last...

I would like to voice some reservations about Ukrainian society’s failure to discuss the method of anonymous polling, which was used in the exit poll in the first round of the October 31 presidential...

In the past three weeks there hasn’t been a single weekend without an opposition rally in Kyiv. The past Saturday was no exception, as tens of thousands of Kyivans flocked to the main city square for...

A juicy scandal has erupted among Ukraine’s sociologists. What is more, it erupted (or, to be more precise, continued) at a press conference, where the National 2004 Exit Poll Consortium disclosed...

November 9. 1976. The Ukrainian Public Group to Support Implementing the Helsinki Agreements was founded. 1977. The Ukrainian Helsinki Group made public its Manifesto of the Ukrainian Human Rights...

There are matches won by teams and those that are won by coaches or individual players. There are very few other kinds of scenarios. Yet these “scenarios” occur with enviable regularity whenever...

The 2005 budget bill was again voted down by the Verkhovna Rada. Even when the six “striking” factions and groups of people’s deputies returned to the hall, the 226 yeas required to pass the bill...

On April Fool’s Day the journalists at one Kyiv publication published a spoof declaring that because of the tense traffic situation, trishaws will soon appear in Ukraine’s capital. The hoax proved...

Little over a month has passed since the publication in Ukrainian and Polish of the third book of The Day’s Library Series, Viyny i Myr [Wars and Peace], under the general editorship of Larysa...

The presidential elections demonstrated that Ukraine is a democracy, said deputy chairman of the Presidential Administration Vasyl Baziv last Friday. According to him, the first round indicated the “...

Looking back to the revolutions that shook Europe and the world 15 years ago this month, we should rejoice in what has been gained — freedom, democracy, and transcendence of Europe’s 40-year division...

The most complete illustrated history of the outstanding politician and historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky, which until now has been part of Kyiv’s Mykhailo Hrushevsky Historical Memorial Museum, is now...