№36, (2006)

It is sad but true: a large part of the Ukrainian population is opposed to NATO membership. Can public opinion be changed in a short while? Ukraine’s recent history knows cases when public opinion...

What is the national idea? One can argue endlessly about this, and every opponent will bring out his own arguments. Be that as it may, the existence of this idea is eloquently evidenced by concrete...

On Jan. 1, 2007, Germany will take over the rotating European Union presidency. It will also preside over the G8 summit. Clearly, Berlin’s opinion will be of paramount importance in drawing up the...

Recently the European Commission adopted a new EU expansion strategy, including a special report on this organization’s integration capacities. The current strategy, based on consolidation,...

For Ukrainian politics the Ukrainian House is a special building. One might even describe it as symbolic. The center of inner parliamentary power was transferred here in 2000. Something like this...

Nov. 14 1939: An emergency session of the Supreme Council of the USSR adopts the law on Western Ukraine’s accession to the USSR and its “unification” with the Ukr. SSR. 2004: Professional artists...

I am a journalism student. Until recently I was confidently proud that I had chosen this profession. Of course, all young people have ambitions that they want to realize in their future professions....

Take me across the maidan,Where I used to sing all the songs I know. I will sink into silence and pass away. Take me across the maidan. Vitalii KOROTYCH One year ago they could still get together. It...

The State Property Fund of Ukraine (FDMU) and the purchaser of Kryvorizhstal are preparing an additional agreement to remove all inconsistencies. The FDMU commission set up to examine the results...

About one-quarter of Ukrainians have given a negative assessment of the work accomplished by Victor Yanukovych’s government in the first 100 days in office. These are the results of a survey...

ODESA — On Nov. 7 representatives of right-wing forces held a rally on Mykhailivska Ploshcha, demanding a ban on the Communist Party of Ukraine, the removal of all symbols of the communist regime and...

The prime minister has appointed his advisers. While the staff shuffles in the Presidential Secretariat were vigorously debated by the general public and the mass media, important appointments that...

Young soloists and masters alike recently took part in an evening of romances at Ukraine’s National Opera. The program combined romances from the classical repertoire and popular works used in home...

For Ukrainians their native land is always embodied in certain landscapes. Natural conditions were one of the factors determining the main features of the Ukrainian ethnos. For the Zaporozhian...

Last Friday Kyiv’s Bereznitsky Gallery Kiev-Berlin opened a photography exhibit entitled “Those Were the Days” in honor of the 20th anniversary of the famous rock group VV (Vopli Vidopliasova). The...