№32, (2004)

The main issue on the agenda during Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn’s recent visit to the United States concerned the presidential elections in Ukraine. In an interview after his meeting with...

Musical Thursdays have become a fine tradition. Once a month Russia’s ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin invites the political, academic, artistic, and business elite, as well as his counterparts...

Ukraine is on the verge of a major political crisis after the presidential runoff. November 22, CEC, after processing 98.23% of the ballots, announced that government-nominated candidate Viktor...

This is a first in the history of the national soccer team: never before had our players won an away-cup match with a three-point advantage. Even in their match against tiny Andorra they contented...

One strategic issue passed unnoticed during the presidential campaign. Parliament had prolonged the moratorium on land sales, and both presidential candidates had consented to it at the current...

It seems unlikely that Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma will be able to fulfill his dream of signing the law on political reform. Political reform advocates failed to garner the 300 votes needed to...

November 23. 1708. The Orthodox Church pronounced an anathema against Ukraine’s Hetman Ivan Mazepa for his alleged betreyal of Tsar Peter I. 1990. A meeting of parliamentary delegations from Ukraine...

Chernivtsi has started a new tradition: every noonday a trumpeter on the tower of Chernivtsi City Hall plays the melody of the world famous song “Marichka,” which has become Bukovyna’s unofficial...

November 17 marked International Students Day. In Ukraine it was celebrated for the fifth year in a row by 2.5 million Ukrainians currently enrolled in higher educational establishments. There are...

The subject of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration was not “in fashion” during the presidential campaign, although it is still the official strategic course. In fact, statements and assurances about...

US President George Bush has named his National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as the next Secretary of State. If the Senate confirms this appointment, Ms. Rice, 50, one of Bush’s closest...

Even the simplest dinner service from the days of grandma’s youth can acquire a new brilliance. But if it’s decorated the wrong way, it may fail to create coziness in your home. Experts advise...

On November 15, Kyiv’s Palace of Art “Ukrainian Home” hosted Olha Bohomolets’s charity concert “Jazz Romance.” The singer decided to sing some favorite romances in the jazz style together with a jazz...

The exhibition from the Anne Frank Museum (Holland) features 67 panels with printed photo images on them. Eight of them were prepared by the Kyiv-based Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and...

Even before the end of the current presidential campaign it was possible to arrive at certain conclusions about its outcome. I believe that long before its start it was safe to assume who would be on...