№33, (2005)

On Oct. 24 the United Nations Organization marked its 60th anniversary. On Thursday, Oct. 20, the UN Office in Ukraine and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine held a public-outreach action at...

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has long been called an ineffective organization whose members ignore its decisions. Is this criticism fair? Yes, but only to a certain...

A Madrid court has issued an international arrest warrant for three US soldiers. Two years ago they contributed to the deaths of two Iraq-based journalists, the Spaniard Jose Couso and the Ukrainian...

NATO will always keep its doors open for Ukraine, Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer declared on Oct. 19, when he met with President Yushchenko. The next day the permanent representatives of...

The declared incomes of President Viktor Yushchenko and his family will be made public this week, the head of state’s chief of staff Oleh Rybachuk told a briefing last Friday. “The declarations of...

Ukraine ranks 107th in Transparency International’s report on global corruption. There is more corruption in Ukraine than Armenia (88th) but less than in Turkmenistan (156th). Russia ranks 126th....

The Taras Shevchenko Drama Theater of Kharkiv recently showcased three productions by Andriy Zholdak, the legendary extremist and bad-boy stage director, who until recently was the company’s artistic...

On Oct. 20 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine rejected the conclusions and proposals of its budget committee for the government’s 2006 draft state budget as well as the draft itself. After the vote, with...

Until Nov. 6 visitors to the capital’s Center of Contemporary Art can view a photo exhibit that will be seen by two million people around the world. Thanks to the British Council, the missions to the...

The State Property Fund of Ukraine (STPFU) named the successful bidder at an auction selling 93.02% interest in the world’s largest steel supplier, public joint-stock company Kryvyi Rih Mining and...

The results of prediction studies by the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine were cited last week by the institute’s director, Serhiy Pyrozhkov,...

The Austrian embassy staged the traditional Vienna Opera Ball in Kyiv for the first time

The Center for International Security and Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, established with assistance from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was inaugurated the other day at Donetsk National...

October 25 1848. The Galician Ruthenian Matytsia Society was formed. 1938. The First Congress of Ukrainian Soviet Artists began, founding the Artists Union of Ukraine. October 26, 1939. The People’s...

A roundtable with the polemical title “Ukraine-Azerbaijan: Oil or Democracy?” was supposed to smooth tensions following the arrest of Rasul Guliev, the former speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament....