№34, (2012)

Every period in the 1,530-year-long history of Kyiv has left its imprint in the city. However, some of them hid the heritage of the previous time or even destroyed it. By no means seeking to be all...

What plagues human advance? First, there’s “Radical Inertia.” This is a deep resistance to change, encountered whenever a way of doing or seeing things is deeply ingrained in us or our systems....

Next Monday Ukraine’s national soccer team will play its first official match since November 2009. This will be a Euro-2012 group stage game against the national team of Sweden. Owing to Euro-2012,...

Ukraine has just gone through another visit of the IMF mission headed by newly appointed Chris Jarvis. The Ukrainian officials did not associate the IMF mission visit to Ukraine with the continuation...

The southern village of Stara Zburyivka, which has attained nationwide fame in the struggle against bureaucracy, will soon have the Internet   Viktor MARUNIAK: “We are waiting for a...

This year musicians from 14 countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, Lithuania, South Korea, Russia, the US, Ukraine, France, and Japan) will take part in the...

The West seems to be losing patience over Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. After the recent Houla massacre, which claimed the lives of over a hundred people, more than a half of them being...

The series of photographs, displayed in various rooms on the premises of Isolation, are the result of research projects realized by eight resident artists during their stay in Donetsk last summer....

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the bill “On Principles of the Official Language Policy” (No. 9073) in its first reading. This notorious draft law was drawn up by members of...

Russia’s monopolist gas company Gazprom is obviously alarmed by Ukraine’s statement to the effect that it will pump Russia’s gas to its underground storage facilities (USF) to meet its ends, no one...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a well-known American political scientist, a professor at Johns Hopkins University; a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a...

Later last week Yale University Professor Timothy Snyder, well known for his studies of Soviet and Nazi crimes in Eastern Europe (incidentally, his book Bloodlands was published in Ukrainian),...

1707: Hetman Ivan Mazepa of Ukraine and Charles XII of Sweden start secret talks on joint action against Peter I of Russia. 1768: The Ukrainian Cossack and peasant rebellion against Poland, known as...

This year’s venue of the competition was the European Town Platform near the People’s Friendship Arch. According to the results of the previous stage of competition, collections created by 18 young...