№33, (2009)

Prominent Russian journalists have been recently leaving the country with increasing frequency. Lately it has become known that Oleg PANFILOV, a professional journalist and head of the Extreme...

LVIV — Organic and genetically modified foods (also known as GMOs) have been increasingly in the media limelight. We are told we cannot eat GM foods because they have a negative effect on our immune...

The economic cooperation committee of the Ukrainian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission is to have a session this Thursday in Yalta, presided over by the Ukrainian and Russian prime ministers. The...

Over the recent decades the steppe acreage in Ukraine dropped from 20 to 3 percent of the country’s total area. Ecologists attribute this fact to massive afforestation. Environmental NGOs drafted the...

On March 20, 2010, Ivan Mazepa’s birthday, the Ukrainian Museum in New York will launch the exhibit Ukraine–Sweden: At the Crossroads of History (it has been on display in the National Museum of...

In 1995 the 28th session of UNESCO’s General Conference proclaimed November 16 to be the International Day for Tolerance and adopted the Declaration on the Principles of Tolerance. Since then this...

On Nov. 10, 2009, Ihor Borysyk, the only Ukrainian representative in the third leg of the 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup in Stockholm, became the first one to win a medal for our team, UNIAN reports....

Ivan Vyshensky is one of the most illustrious Ukrainian polemical writers. Numerous books on him have been published, and yet it would be wrong to say that all pages of his life have been...

Oleksandr Volodarsky is an action artist from Luhansk. He has a popular blog. On November 2, Volodarsky and an anonymous female partner stripped in front of the Verkhovna Rada and imitated having sex...

How fast time goes by! I can remember, as if it were yesterday — but in fact it was in October 2008 — as we, participants in the traditional 9th Ukrainian-American Roundtable, sat in an imposing hall...

WARSAW – Some complain that the European Union lacks a “worldview.” In fact, the EU’s problem is that it has too many of them. Europeans’ common experiences and interests mean that they should...

Solomiia Krushelnytska Street in Lviv is long and narrow, with old stone structures stealing bashful, enviously glances at Kosciuszko Park that proudly displays its expanses up front. There is a...

The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk) reports that Trinity College, Cambridge, has put on public display the diary of Gareth Jones (1905—1935), a Welsh journalist who dared to say the truth about the Holodomor...

There is a well-known theory of music as a means of communication via expressing one’s emotions. From a philosophical standpoint, music is a self-sufficient phenomenon of human esthetic interaction...

German restorers have launched the second masterclass on restoration of historical entry gates in Lviv. They have organized this training within the framework of the Ukrainian-German project “...