№31, (2003)

The gallery of the Arts Promotion Foundation hosts an exhibition of works by Kateryna Hutnikova and Yuliya Maistrenko-Vakulenko, Kyiv’s two young graphic artists. Titled “The World Is a Space Given...

European history at the turn of the twenty-first century teems with curious amusing incidents. A decade ago, no one could have dreamed of a true monarch coming to power in Bulgaria. The restoration...

On October 14, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine levied a record fine on Dnipropetrovsk’s Avias and Sentoza Oil: UAH 98.7 million. Both gasoline- trading companies, running 12 and 34 filling...

Contrary to expectations, the All-Ukrainian Congress of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, held the week before last, passed in a surprisingly calm manner. Notably, everybody expected...

The Editors received a letter from Anatoly Bebelo, a docent at the Kyiv National Economic University, containing a rather critical assessment of one of the publications by our author and consultant...

It is always a pleasure to receive responses from readers. It is a double pleasure when the response is critical, because that means the reader is thinking for himself, and we have an opportunity for...

I would like to voice my gratitude to Prof. James Mace through your newspaper, as his articles on the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine have attracted public attention with their serious and unbiased...

A noted artist almost always cuts an enigmatic figure in the public eye. People wonder about his talent, special vision of the world, and an ability to not only observe, but also look into the...

On October 19, the Ukraine National Palace in Kyiv hosted a single concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra and Choir (St. Petersburg) directed by Maestro Valery Gergiyev flying in from New York...

The Kyiv Music Fest is an old-timer among Ukraine’s contemporary music festivals distinguished for its status and time-honored traditions. For the Kyiv public it has long become an event with an...

Until the last day it was a tossup whether the festival will take place or not, with the organizers complaining about a lack of funds. In spite of this almost insurmountable obstacle, Lviv streets...

Can one be a citizen of one country and harbor a strong genetic affinity for another one, the land of one’s forefathers, where one’s own history actually began? Oleksandr Vlasenko is and does just...

The gardens sadly listen As flames swallow The crisp leaves... Lina Kostenko Summer is perhaps the most material, corporeal, and static season, when everything is crystal clear, and...

It now seems difficult to tell something new connected with the name of Taras Shevchenko. But in his lifetime the Bard met a great number of people, including not only representatives of the nation’s...

When the twentieth century came to an end, curious mankind started to sum it up. This is what always happens when round figures show up on the historical calendar. Let us also ponder over the quite...