№38, (2007)

On Dec. 11 the members of the Ukrainian parliament are expected to vote Yulia Tymoshenko into office. But the current coalition is so frail that certain doubts still remain. Last Thursday,...

This year Ukrainians everywhere are marking two red-letter dates: the 125th birth anniversary and the 35th death anniversary of Ivan Ohiienko (1882-1972), an outstanding scholar, political figure,...

The Bozhychi folk band introduced its first animated music video for the song “Herasym asked me” at Kyiv’s Kinopanorama Cinema. Filming lasted for nearly a year, and the video will be premiered on...

A few days ago Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee (NOC), headed by Serhii Bubka, presented its summary of the Ukrainian sports year. The members of the NOC mentioned the enlargement of the...

Healthy soils on which grow healthy plants that are used as fodder for healthy cattle - this is not a fairytale but a pattern for the production of organic foods. The rejection of pesticides,...

(Conclusion. For Part One, see previous issue) POLITICS AND COMPETENCE Yurii SHCHERBAK: Political appointees and their incompetence constitute a very difficult problem; they are a threat to society....

A few days ago the Mykolaiv Scholarly Pedagogical Library held a launch of two books: The Mykolaiv Region in the Starving Years of 1921-1923, 1932-1933 and 1946-1947 and the third volume of...

A very interesting exhibit, which is part of a project with the strange title of “reAnimatsiia” (Reanimation) has opened at the Lviv Art Gallery. On display are works by 11 prominent contemporary...

Dec. 11 1991: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolves to establish diplomatic relations with the countries that were once part of the former USSR. 2004: The Ukraine Channel broadcasts a telethon...

Ukrainian citizens haven’t seen the promised drop in housing prices. Both mortgage rescues and government programs have proved powerless against them. Zoia Nesterenko, the head of the Kanzas...

The victims did not die during military actions, bombardments, or local conflicts. They did not die during the Holocaust, as some have suggested. Rather, they perished in 1947, two years after the...

It took Roman Bonchuk, a young artist from Ivano-Frankivsk, a whole year to complete his monumental painting Megahistory of Ukraine. The titanic canvas, measuring 30 x 5 meters, has every right to be...

Lithuania joined the European Union and NATO in 2004. Why are Lithuanians still great fans of the EU? What are some of the benefits of membership? Why did the Lithuanian government recently establish...

Today’s guest of our regular column “Ukraine through the Eyes of Foreigners” is Dominique MENU, the head of the Representative Office in Ukraine of BNP Paribas, one of the main banks in Europe and...

It happened 30 years ago. In November 1977 a group of completely unknown artists in Kyiv organized an exhibit in a building that now houses the Modern Art Center and the Dakh Theater. They were...