№35, (2002)

The third Petro Jacyk International Ukrainian Language Contest began November 9 in Kolodiazhne, Lesia Ukrayinka’s home village in Volyn. It was initiated by the Ministry of Education and Science,...

Oleksandr DERHACHOV, editor-in-chief, Political Thought: The Communists have always attracted the attention of politicians and sociologists. Until recently the number of their supporters was...

On November 2-3 President Leonid Kuchma opened the fourth meeting of the Council of Representatives of the Crimean Tatar People in Simferopol. The council was founded over two years ago to speed the...

Andriy YERMOLAYEV, Director, Sophia Center for Social Research: “I would single out two aspects in this situation. The first is purely ideological. From the angle of plans and interests, the Four...

On November 4 the International Center for Policy Research (ICPR) announced it was revising its outlook for Ukraine’s economic development in 2003-2004. ICPR experts believe the economy is faltering...

As the IMF two-week mission to Ukraine came to an end, its head Emanuel van der Mensbrugge claimed on November 5 that the International Monetary Fund regretted the delay in privatization of regional...

Scientists believe the world could soon find itself in the grip of a pandemic. The gripp.ru site forecasts that in Russia alone 120 million will be infected, 60 million fall ill, 500,000 hospitalized...

Late the week before last Lychakiv Cemetery became the epicenter of Lviv social and political events. The first event to take place was reburial of Yevhen Petrushevych, president of the Western...

The Cabinet of Ministers has instructed the State Treasury to provide funding before all for the key budget items, should budgetary receipts fall short of official targets. This is the upshot of the...

A flight was boarding at the airport. Although the big liner was standing rather far away — 300-400 meters — from the terminal, no buses were furnished for some reason. As always, the passengers...

Blue is a very popular color in life and daily practices. Its utilitarian function is that of a purity certificate, also a sensation of vigor. Even faded blue makes one want to immediately revive it...

There are people for whom the sensation of risk and danger are akin to complacency and a sedentary lifestyle of the overwhelming majority of other mortals. Such people once were the first to climb...

We all hope to experience something unusual and exciting. We so want our daily routine to be interspersed by little joys, pleasant surprises, even miracles. This perhaps explains our being so fond of...

The first Ukrainian Theatrical Platform on the stages of drama companies in Kyiv and Kharkiv is hard to describe as a festival. They showed rather fresh yet well-known productions, performed more...

Kyiv was cleared of the Nazi Germans by Soviet forces on November 6, 1943. The Battle of the Dnipro started in September 1943, stretching along a 750 km front line from Loyiv to Zaporizhzhia. Pitched...