№30, (2013)

The last meeting of the parliamentary faction Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) was supposed to have become a sort of purging. At least, so it had been said on its eve. The thing is that a part of regional...

This is the highest award in Britain in the sphere of classical music performance, a kind of musical “Oscar.” It is the most prestigious and old music award in the world! The list of...

It would be funny if it were not so sad. A series of photographs, depicting a Ukrainian army general and a horse, appeared on Facebook and provoked a lively discussion lately. The whole affair...

What gives, with that American bum and his trumpet? I seem to remember a certain storyline from my childhood, almost a cliche of early American TV and film. Put simply, a jazz musician must learn a...

The Ambassador of the European Union to Ukraine, Jan Tombinski, together with French Ambassador Alain Remy and Croatian Ambassador Tomislav Vidosevic opened a photo exhibition entitled “Homo...

The festival is named after Witold Lutoslawski. The concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the composer will feature Little Suite, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Concerto for Orchestra, and...

Young activists say that none of the complaints filed by animal rights activists have been considered by the police lately. Police refused to act on the appeals despite the evidence: documents,...

Last Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Bulgaria ended in a victory for the center-right party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) which polled 31.37 percent of votes. However...

Russia declared Ryan Christopher Fogle, diplomat working for the US Embassy in Moscow arrested on the night of May 13 by Russian FSB counter-intelligence officers while he was allegedly trying to...

May 13 marked two months of the time when the white smoke over the Vatican announced that a new Pope had been chosen. Over this time interest to figure of Pope Francis has been increasing –...

In the Nazi era, there was a forced labor camp and a death camp in a small German town of Braunschweig, whose inmates also included Ukrainians. This place claimed an estimated 4,800 Ukrainian lives....

Sensational criminal cases of the 2000s in Ukraine have again become a subject of heightened attention from the international community. As is known, the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress had a...

On May 14, the Verkhovna Rada passed one of the mandatory European integration bills. It provides for a uniform register of persons who committed corruption offenses. Under this law the authorities...

The authorities promised to plant red horse-chestnuts, but the trees have broken into white blossom, prompting environmentalists and civic activists to suspect the city officials of engaging in a...

“Almost all birds are back in Ukraine already. There are species that arrive very late, for example, the shrub warbler, and, maybe, some individuals of these species are still flying in, but...