№33, (2005)

It appears that there was no basis for the gas shock that swept the country after reports by some news agencies. Journalists first heard about this last Tuesday from Oleksiy Ivchenko, the head of...

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...

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...

Ukrainians who are more or less well-versed in history must have heard of Subotiv, a small village in Cherkasy oblast, which was the family estate of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. It is one of the many tiny...

The conflict that took place on Saturday, Oct. 15, in Kyiv during the celebration of the UPA’s 63 rd anniversary continued within the walls of parliament. The communist faction, in the person of...

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...

The slogan “Don’t Sell Yourself!” was unfurled on the squares of Odesa, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Luhansk, and Kyiv. Everywhere public demonstrations took place under the motto “Stop Human...

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 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...

The latest concert of the “Golden Pages of Italian Music” series was held in Kyiv as part of a joint project of the Italian Institute of Culture in Ukraine and the National Philharmonic Society. The...

At first glance, Russia bears many of the hallmarks of a great power. It possesses a large arsenal of nuclear weapons, a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, enormous reserves of...

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

Andriy Astrakhan, director of the Legal and Regulatory Reform Department of USAID/BIZPRO, says Ukraine ranks with the world’s most overregulated countries. Whereas several hundred normative acts were...

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....

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....