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The name of Erich Loest is equally well-known both in Eastern and Western Germany. His life vacillates between the two halves of a single nation. The Eastern part is where he gained his civil...

Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz urged people’s deputies to ask the US Embassy to carry out an independent forensic examination of the body assumed by some to be that of missing journalist Heorhy...

Numerous polls show that the church is the most trusted social institution these days. This is explained primarily by the fact that people hold the religious moral dictates in great esteem. There are...

“Under no circumstances will I run for the third presidential term,” President Kuchma declared on November 28, addressing a session of experts on domestic policy issues. “I am likely to have more...

Hanna SHEREMET, Editor of the Culture Desk: It is considered that journalism is more than a profession; it is either mode of life or a diagnosis. For me, my profession is a hobby and vice versa....

Everyone is talking about the sensational tape former Speaker Oleksandr Moroz has publicized, where the president of the country allegedly told the head of internal affairs to drag recalcitrant...

This year’s winter has brought on such meteorological cataclysms, such as icy roads, sticky wet snow, gusty winds, and abrupt changes in temperature. The very first test by cold led to serious power...

Potential buyers are not the only people closely following the process of privatization of the Ukrainian oblenerho regional electric companies. Effective sale of four out of seven energy companies is...

After long and strained consultations at the OSCE meeting in Vienna, Ukraine recalled former Foreign Minister Borys Tarasiuk as candidate OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities. Ukraine’s...

In this world — with its growing trend toward virtual reality, television, video game hookups, the Internet, and mobile phones — one notices another trend, at least in high fashion, of returning to...

The November 27 snowfall can in no way be called a natural abnormality. No weather forecasts are required to establish that snow is due this time of year. And its belated coming is no reason to...

On the eve of year 2001 the word millennium became very popular coming from the Latin word mill (thousand). This word carries in it a certain soundness, maturity. Even age can be short....

A World Bank commission arrived in Kyiv on December 3 on a two-day visit to study the possibility of Ukraine receiving a System Program loan, First Vice Premier Yuri Yekhanurov last Friday told...

Tetiana PALADINA, Ph.D. in biology: The reason we have no Nobel laureates has nothing to do with the Ukrainian character, our supposed peasant stubbornness and lack of enthusiasm for knowledge....

Last Friday Verkhovna Rada put the item On the Progress of Investigation into the Disappearance of Journalist Gongadze on the agenda of the next plenary week’s special parliamentary session. The...