№32, (2004)

To all appearances, Ukraine’s debt policy will soon get a facelift. The parliamentary subcommittee on the state debt has drafted a bill on the state debt of Ukraine, which ties the concept of state...

When Tsar Peter I died in 1725, the government of Catherine I decided to “grace Ukraine with some care and affection.” But the tsarina’s sudden death in 1727 changed the situation. Peter II, who...

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...

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...

The new year will bring new players into the nation’s economic arena: twenty-six private pension funds, which are viewed by experts as a reliable domestic source of funding for the economy. But it...

The name of the great pianist Vladimir Horowitz, whose name now graces a major music competition, is symbolic for Ukraine. He was called the king of pianists and a citizen of the world, who had a...

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...

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...

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...

It is only November, but the theater follows its own calendar. A Christmas tree on the stage, fake snowflakes whirling around... This fall will go down in the history of Ukrainian National Opera with...

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...

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...

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 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...

The enterprise to which I once entrusted my property privatization certificate recently paid me twenty-two hryvnias, my four years of dividends. When I broke this news to some of my acquaintances,...