№34, (2006)

The new concept of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service is devoted to Euro-integration. It is not just a matter of Ukraine’s strivings to join the EU. First of all, there is still much to be learned...

A soiree from the “Seasons of the Year” series was held at the Kyiv Museum of Russian Art, uniting music, poetry, and painting. The Bolshoi Theater Quartet, appearing for the first time on an...

I think the language question is the most boring issue today. Even before the subject is hinted at, let alone broached, I wince and recoil from it. True, you can stumble on real treasures on this...

The 36th Molodist International Film Festival ended at Ukraine Palace with the awards ceremony and screening of Guillermo del Toro’s The Faun’s Labyrinth on Sunday. Some of the winners are already...

Step by step, Ukraine is gradually drawing closer to the European Union. The latest step was the 10th Ukraine-EU Summit in Helsinki, which ended on Oct. 27, 2006, with the initialing of two...

What’s the use of preparing for an interview if you are sure there will be an almost nonstop monologue whose topic will not depend on your long list of questions but on the master’s mood and his...

Oct. 31 1995: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratifies the Law linking it to the Statute of the Council of Europe 1999: As a result of the presidential elections in Ukraine no candidate obtains the...

Budget hearings will continue this week in the Ukrainian parliament. The cabinet promises to submit a revised draft of the country’s budget for the first reading. So the government’s most important...

Clients of a number of liquidate Ukrainian banks are getting ready to pitch a row of tents in front of the National Bank of Ukraine in protest against financial settlement delays. “I am 100 percent...

The absence or drop in electoral support for parties that position themselves as democratic ones is no indicator that Ukrainian voters are disillusioned with the democratic idea as such. This has...

A ceremony marking the opening of the Museum of Architecture, Ukraine’s first, and the completion of the first phase of restoring the famous Metropolitan’s Residence was held at the St. Sophia...

The 6 th International Scientific- Practical Conference “Man and Outer Space” aroused great interest among scientists in various fields as well as aerospace specialists from Ukraine and Russia not...

Ukraine is capable of ensuring its integrity and national sovereignty. This was the gist of Yushchenko’s response to Putin during the Ukrainian president’s visit to Helsinki. “We have the Ukrainian...

China’s rulers rarely wash their dirty linen in public. So the arrest of Politburo member and Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu on corruption charges has sent shock waves across the country...

During the next plenary week Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the BYuT opposition bloc, will renew her attempt to submit a draft law to abolish parliamentary privileges but will take into...