№34, (2000)

The second, extraordinary, congress of the six-months-old Ukrainian Labor has again confirmed adherence of this party to the “roof-to-floor” building pattern. On the Saturday before last, Trudova...

Ukraine has never opposed the construction of an additional gas pipeline bypassing its territory, President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine said during his visit to Turkey. He also reiterated that “Ukraine...

The level of economic freedom in Ukraine has dropped sharply in 2000, as evidenced by the Heritage Foundation report carried recently by The Wall Street Journal . The organization’s annual Economic...

“We must learn to think in the European way not only in Brussels,” the President of Ukraine stated the week before last. To learn the European way of thinking one should obviously agree upon the...

Ihor Pylypchuk’s Marathon is the title of a new documentary released by the Kontakt Studios jointly with 1+1. It premiered recently at the House of Cinematographers. Like other productions of the Our...

People’s Deputy Oleksandr Lavrynovych during his report in parliament on the work of the temporary parliamentary commission on the disappearance of journalist Heorhy Gongadze stressed the need to...

On November 18 Kyiv hosted the unifying congress of the Labor Solidarity of Ukraine Party incorporating five centrist parties: the Regional Revival Party, Party of Labor, Ukrainian Solidarity Party,...

“In your opinion, is the present criticism of the government by many media outlets a sign of information war (as the recent Rukh statement has it) or an indication of political pluralism?” Heorhy...

The lull in credits for Ukraine from international organizations has been linked with the donor countries expectations that Ukraine would improve its anti-corruption track record, thus saving Western...

November 28: 1921. The Ukrainian SSR joined the International Red Cross Convention. 1994. The first sitting of the Constitutional Commission officially renewed the constitutional process in...

Pygmalion, the legendary sculptor of Cyprus, avoided women. Once, seeking a distraction from his daily secluded routine, he chiseled an ivory statue of a young beauty and fell in love with it....

Residents of the sleepy town of Schengen, near Luxembourg’s border with France and Germany, would marvel at the hatred in which their hometown is held across Eastern Europe. For the freedom of...

It now appears that one can — and I might add that one should try to do precisely this. It is necessary, provided that this soul is capable of experiencing joy and sorrow, weeping and dreams......

The following is a sharply-worded polemic by Liubov Kovalevska on the mentality inherent in Ukrainians. This woman journalist is well known in Ukraine and was the first to foretell the Chornobyl...

November 25 was the Day of the Memory of Victims of the Holodomor Famine and Political Repression. Under the presidential decree of October 31, 2000, this event is to be commemorated every fourth...