№38, (2006)

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is facing a political decision whether to recognize the Holodomor of 1932-33 as genocide against the people of Ukraine. Parliamentarians will have to make a moral choice...

The death of any person is an extinguished candle, an irreparable loss for the nation and the world. In the accursed years of 1932-33, millions of indestructible candles representing our...

Since 2001 Viktor Chernomyrdin, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, has represented the interests of the Russian state in Ukraine. During this time...

SEVASTOPIL-SYMFEROPIL — I carried out an experiment. Walking down Velyka Morska St. in Sevastopil, I stopped 10 city residents and asked them the same question: “What caused the city water supply...

Nov. 28 1994: The Constitutional Commission meets and the constitutional process is officially resumed in Ukraine. 2004: Priests and parishioners offer up prayers in Kyiv’s largest cathedral, St....

Ukraine celebrated Freedom Day on Nov. 22: two years ago tens of thousands of people went to the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv to defend the principles of democracy and freedom....

It looks as if Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko has completely rejected the idea of building a union state with Russia and is thereby changing the state’s foreign policy orientation. During a...

In 2006 alone 900 women have been killed by their husbands during drunken brawls and other types of altercations — by men who had pledged to love them forever, in joy as well as in sorrow. There are...

For illegal migrants making their way to Europe from Asia and Russia, one of the biggest routes “from the Varangians to the Greeks” crosses Ukraine. Last week politicians held a roundtable to discuss...

KHARKIV — The famous Budy Pottery Factory in Kharkiv region has “expired,” or to put it another way, gone bankrupt. Today no one can afford to spend so much energy on glazing pottery. The economy is...

The historian James Ernest Mace (Feb. 18, 1952 — March 3, 2004), an Oklahoma-born American from the Cherokee tribe, devoted his life to the thorough study of the Ukrainian Apocalypse of 1932-33. He...

Three-thirds of Ukraine’s population live in poverty, only one-third may boast of strong health, despite this 52 percent of the population consider themselves happy. Such are the results of the polls...

Experts have begun noting an interesting trend: many people are returning to ancient religious beliefs, including ridnovirstvo, belief in a single deity known as Rid. All this has a simple...

Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) kindly agreed to discuss his recent visit to the Ukrainian Orthodox community in...

TERNOPIL — According to Mykhailo Mykolenko, the head of the Ternopil oblast council, developing cooperative societies is the way of the future for Ukrainian villages. He voiced this thesis in...