№36, (2003)

It is difficult to overestimate the role of Ostroh and the glorious dynasty of princes Ostrozky in the history of Ukraine and Eastern Europe in general. The city located in the very hub of Greater...

Last Tuesday the Kyiv-based Artem Factory processed seized pirate CDs and videocassettes into materials to be used in the making of plastic articles, including wheelchair parts. Knockoffs worth UAH...

Valery Khoroshkovsky occupies a special place on the Ukrainian political scene. He first made himself known as a People’s Democratic Party member. His second coming into politics, as part of a...

Last Tuesday, Verkhovna Rada did not see a new velvet revolution — not because it was impossible, but because it was unnecessary for the time being. Meanwhile, a conflict in the parliament still...

In 1988 the US Commission on the Ukraine Famine arrived at nineteen findings, among them (No. 16) that what happened to the Ukrainians in 1932-1933 constituted genocide. This was, in fact, the most...

On October 16-18, Vicenza (Italy) hosted Western Europe’s first scholarly forum on the issues of the Ukrainian Holodomor Manmade Famine of 1932-33. The symposium, dedicated to the seventieth...

Following the conference on the Holodomor at Columbia University and the opening of a special exhibit at the United Nations, the Ukrainian Mission asked this author to introduce the award-winning...

Socrates said that a scientist failing to bestow knowledge on fellow humans is like a lamp covered with a pot, meaning no light, so what is the use of it? He said this, addressing his pupils more...

The Akvarel Gallery hosts the one-man show of a Kyiv-based artist Oleksandr Tarnovsky, which he named Solar Improvisation. Oleksandr Tarnovsky is an architect by education and jeweler by calling...

A personal exhibition of two Ukrainian designers, Yury Ryntov and Volodymyr Bondarenko, opened a new cultural project titled Object No. 2003, initiated by the Viche Ukrayiny Fund, Davis Cara studio,...

The Cultural Heritage Museum hosts an exhibition of paintings by a Yalta artist Stepan Yarovy (1913-1988). Stepan Yarovy was a famous landscape painter or, more specifically, a painter of...

On the eve of the Day of the Ukrainian Language and Literature, the opening ceremony of the Petro Jacyk Fourth International Ukrainian Language Contest was held in the philanthropist’s native village...

Preserving cultural and historical heritage is vital for every nation willing to preserve its identity. However, many questions remain unanswered after the Day of the Government parliamentary...

The Dukh i Litera (Spirit and Letter) publishers have recently turned out the book, Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky. Documents and Materials of 1941-1944, on the metropolitan’s activities during the...

An intergovernmental agreement was signed in Kyiv between Ukraine and Israel on settling the claims resulted from the TU-154 crash over the Black Sea in October 2001. The agreement specifying the...