№34, (2010)

Ecological or green tourism has been gaining popularity around the world. For example, according to the data of the International ecotourism society, this market can reach a turnover of 470 billion...

Sochi’s Winter Theater prizewinners of the 21st Open Russian festival “Kinotavr” were announced on June 14. Many will be delighted to hear that the Ukrainian-German-Dutch movie My...

The festival will open in Moscow, on June 14, and will end in Kyiv, on June 26. It commemorates the 65th anniversary of the prominent Ukrainian composer, Ivan Karabyts (1945-2002) — the title...

Back in the mid-1990s, the theater-goers from Kyiv, Moscow, and the world’s other capitals were fascinated by the magic of Lermontov’s Masquerade, produced by Rimas Tuminas at his home...

MADRID – “Time and again in our Nation’s history, Americans have risen to meet – and to shape – moments of transition. This must be one of those moments.” So...

Azarov calls for compromises with EU Ukraine’s Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has called for mutual compromises and concessions with the EU regarding the free trade area agreement. He said this in...

President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine has restarted cooperation with the International Monetary Fund. Last Sunday he assured the Ukrainian people that the IMF resolution on granting Ukraine another...

The first press conference of the RF Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov produced an ambiguous impression. To be more precise, some of his observations are surprising. It should be noted that...

The Lybid Publishers’ launch of the book Berestechko, which they published for Lina Kostenko’s jubilee, took place last weekend at the National Museum of Literature. The presentations...

Volyn oblast – Anatolii Hrytsiuk, head of the Volyn oblast rada (the local legislature) sent an open letter to the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr...

1934: The maiden flight of Maxim Gorky, a 63-meter wingspan ANT-20, the world’s largest aircraft at the time. 1944: CC CP(B)U adopts a decree on aid to the communist party of Czechoslovakia in the...

Recently Kyiv city hosted First Ukrainian Festival of Extreme Sports X-Day.The Park of People’s Friendship accommodated, among others, a paintball arena, climbing walls, rope parks, quad bikes, and...

Ukrainian actors, writers, and musicians appealed to Viktor Yanukovych, asking him to prevent the removal of film dubbing in Ukrainian as “not only the most rapidly developing industry in Ukraine...

This week has seen Mykola Azarov’s report to the nation about his first 100 days as the head of the Cabinet of Ministers in the show “Examining the Authorities.” So, was it a pass? It looked like the...

Vasyl Stefanyk, a Ukrainian novelist, described impoverished Ukrainian immigrants across the ocean in the early 20th century. Canada has since become a center of Ukrainians abroad, home to the third...