№38, (2000)

Comrade Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is an extraordinarily interesting interlocutor. Some intellectuals even published entire books of conversations with the eternal revolutionary. Now the president of...

Primary forms of charity in the form of donation to beggars comes to us from time immemorial, but charity became the norm of societal life with the establishment of Christianity. Kyiv Prince...

WE ELECT AND ARE ELECTED, WHICH OFTEN FAIL TO COINCIDE The parties are recounting their ranks in anticipation of the elections, as if they were birds preening themselves on the eve of mating...

Ukraine has already kicked off the Christmas season with St. Nicholas Day, when the children are always the center of attention. We now look forward to New Year’s and Christmas, which most people...

It has been one year this week since the President of Ukraine issued the decree, On Urgent Measures to Speed Up the Privatization of Property in Ukraine, followed by a parliament decision to adopt...

Ukrainian teachers, organized by trade unions, are ready to hold mass protest actions in early 2001 if the government fails to raise their wages beginning in January, Deputy Chairperson of the...

Eduard Tryroh is a graphic artist, such is his “technical characteristic” or a characteristic of the techniques used in his works. Bistre, gouache, watercolors, or pastel are almost never applied...

On December 18 a transport with the first group of Ukrainian peacemakers departed for Sierra Leone from the port of Zhovtnevy in Mykolayiv oblast. It will also deliver 244 trucks and armored vehicles...

The Biennial in Venice is often compared with the Cannes Festival, even with the Olympics. Ukraine has never appeared in this festival’s history of over a century, unlike Poland, the Czech Republic,...

Despite recent improvements on oil markets, Europe is worried over a hazy future spelling uncertain fuel supplies. The old world is no longer prepared to put up with its dependence for oil on OPEC,...

December 26: 1825. Revolutionary Russian and Ukrainian nobles (later referred to as Decembrists) rebelled in an abortive attempt to block the accession of Emperor Nicholas I. 1947. The VKP(b)...

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski is certain the best way to solve the problem with the oil pipe line Odesa-Brody-Gdansk is to form an international consortium in which Poland is ready to...

More than one generation are being raised by the television screen rather than parents, school, or good books. Therefore, television standards are perceived by many (subconsciously, consciously, or...

NATO’s KFOR peacemaking force in Kosovo has witnessed an unprecedented occasion, with an officer of a country, never a NATO member, becoming head of its public relations service. The officer is Lt....

Oksana Stratiychuk (of late known as Berbeka-Stratiychuk) is an artist with a name or, to be more precise, with a style. People visit art exhibits hoping to find her, and she is instantly recognized...