№33, (2002)

The placebo effect, much advertised by psychologists, boils down to the ability to cure oneself by just believing in the effectiveness of any substance whatever. Practitioners’ views are somewhat...

To increase the number of those speaking the Ukrainian language by organizing summer Ukrainian studies with funds donated by foreigners — this is the ambitious plan of the members of a newly founded...

Roseanne Wowchuk, Manitoba Secretary of Agriculture and Food, had a two-day working visit to Kyiv. She was accompanied by officials from Saskatchewan and Alberta. Ms. Wowchuk met with Ukrainian...

This article is aimed at objectively defining controversies in the relations between the media and the political system, describing trends leading to politicization in the information domain and...

On October 22 Verkhovna Rada debated amendments to the Concept (policy guidelines) of Ukraine’s National Security. The bill was introduced by President Kuchma represented by National Security and...

The Sixth Meeting of the World Congress of Ukrainian Jurists, held on October 18 in Kyiv, addressed issues of the current condition of the political and legal system of Ukraine and the prospects and...

Problems relating to the establishment of a civil society in Ukraine appear to have the highest priority. They were discussed at a round table titled The Current Status of Civil Society in Ukraine:...

The system of slavery has passed into memory this summer and serfdom abolished. Nobody could suggest that we are reminded here of the inherently cyclical nature of history. Contemporary slavers do...

Preparing the Enerhoatom National Energy Company for market competition is the goal of the corporate development strategy set out in a TACIS institutional support project presented on October 22 by...

The Yavornytsky History Museum in Dnipropetrovsk hosts a unique exposition, Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Emblems of Power as Hetman of Ukraine, initiated by and organized in collaboration with the XXI...

Velyky Burluk, a township in Kharkiv oblast, marked its 330th anniversary late last summer. It is the center of a remote administrative district with a friendly and hardworking populace...

The Dumka Choir performed Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia on October 13 at the National Philharmonic Society, as part of the Volodymyr Krainev Welcomes Festival. It was the celebrated choir’s first...

This tale, which could almost qualify as a war or detective story was set in motion by that ill-famed hero of the Ukrainian Clio of the mid-seventeenth century, Prince Jarema Wiszniewiecki. As we...

The season has just begun, but the Ivan Franko drama company appears already with a second premiere, Hryhory Skovoroda’s ABC of the World, with five travelers pondering true happiness. It is a...

The years of the Ruin (1650s-1670s) marked a most devastating period in Ukrainian history. The frail shoot of our statehood was supplanted by complete social and political anarchy, morals shred to...