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The Culture-and-Art Center of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy recently hosted the 3rd tournament of the intellectual game Go for the Cup of the Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine, Mr. Honda Hitoshi. The Japanese...

The soldiers of the First Detached Special-Purpose Regiment (a.k.a. presidential) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine took their oath of allegiance on December 4. As the Ministry of Defense...

Power Unit Four in Chornobyl blew up fourteen years ago. Ukraine proclaimed its independence ten years ago. All these years we have wholeheartedly cursed the Soviet Union, blaming it for all seven...

Against the backdrop of other parties’ recent conventions, the People’s Democratic Party (NDP) sixth congress definitely stands alone due to its absolute lack of anything out of the ordinary. Not a...

Whatever budget bill the Cabinet submits to Parliament, it will eventually pass in the first, second, or third reading. Lawmakers will shout, beat their breasts, pose for the cameras, and thus show...

Several days ago parliament established a moratorium on Ukraine’s joining international organizations in 2001. But even if such a decision had not been made, the reality of Ukraine to become already...

“True, they made us play outside the law,” Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund Chechetov had to admit, commenting on the outcome of the tender selling 68.1% stock of the Zaporizhzhia Aluminum...

President Leonid Kuchma addressed the nation on the first national channel on December 6, saying that “events these past couple of days show that Ukraine is being pushed to a point beyond which there...

For more than two centuries historians and antiquarians have searched with no apparent success for this mysterious river. They have advanced various hypotheses and interpreting the text of the poetic...

The residents of Lviv are looking forward to the premiere of Oles Yanchuk’s motion picture, The Unconquered, about Roman Shukhevych (Chuprynka), Commander-in- Chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (...

A press conference organized by the Ukrainian Journalist Solidarity Association on December 6 presented the book Taras Shevchenko the Werewolf by Oles Buzyna, writer and journalist. His new work had...

Volodymyr PANKEYEV, first deputy editor-in-chief: “I has always been lucky professionally. A samizdat magazine in my final years at the university, the former Postup and Post-Postup immediately...

About ten kilometers from Khmelnytsky, somewhere between the villages of Bohdanivtsi and Kopystyn, ostriches have appeared. Soon the female started to lay eggs, and the male, in accordance with his...

Many Ukrainian media outlets recite grandiloquent obituaries to the late Soviet system. Thus, publications of the Peasants’ Party mourn recent collective-farm life, when “people in the countryside...

Jan Saudek’s World is the title of an exposition recently opened at Ukraine House. The Czech photographer is known far outside his country as a master of whimsical composition with a definite touch...