№31, (2011)

An unprecedented event took place in Kyiv last week: over 100 leading Ukrainian institutions of higher education gathered at the first higher education summit in order to discuss the plans for...

The agreement on a Free Trade Area (FTA) between Ukraine and the EU is virtually ready, with only three unsettled questions remaining, to which the Ukrainian authorities are trying to find a...

On June 1 the Dnipropetrovsk-based Kvartyra art center opened an exhibit “Over the Icebergs” of works by the legendary Ukrainian artist Oleh Holosii. Holosii was born May 31, 1965, in...

The Ivan Kozlovsky “Spiritual Heritage” creative lounge of opera and ballet art was established 10 years ago. Kozlovsky was a famous tenor who was born in Ukraine and always maintained...

The Art Arsenal Gallery has been filled with books. May 28 through June 1 it hosted the First International Festival “Book Arsenal.” Over 100 Ukrainian publishers presented their...

The government set such high standards for agrarians back in 2007, having included a list of relevant requirements in the program of Ukraine’s rural development until year 2015. The...

Hnat Yura is at last coming back to his dear theater that he directed for over forty years. And what years! The Civil War, Ukrainization, fighting against “nationalism,” mass...

The next round of talks aimed at reviewing the gas contracts signed in 2009 between Ukraine and Russia will take place in a week, on June 7. This time the negotiations will be held on a prime-...

Lviv — The Lviv Archeparchy, Internet portal “Catholic observer” and the Department of Culture of Lviv’s Municipal Council have started selecting photographs for the “...

Den recently reported (The Day’s Ukrainian edition; no. 80-81) that the Lviv Zankovetska National Theater was welcomed to the 12th International Theater Festival Melikhovo Spring for the 11th...

1795: The Russian Empire orders Right-Bank Ukraine’s gubernias reorganized as namestnichestvo viceregencies. 1842: The second volume of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls comes off the presses. 1918: Germany...

Ukraine and Spain were victims of dictatorships for a long time, Stalin’s and Franco’s respectively. The Kingdom of Spain healed rather quickly from the damage Franco’s...

Much to the joy of entrepreneurs an updated version of the customs regulations has been submitted for parliamentary consideration. This is the second most important, after the Tax Code, document...

Fourteen prominent cultural figures and human rights activists in Russia addressed a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, warning them against an impending...

The oil and gas sectors are currently facing exhausted deposits, announced the Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yurii Boiko during a meeting in Poltava oblast. “About 60 percent of our...