№4, (2003)

Leonid Kadeniuk, so far the only astronaut of independent Ukraine, took part in the 24th mission of the space shuttle Columbia that broke up on reentry last week. In a telephone interview yesterday,...

The first few months of a new year are usually the time for ambitious planning. This year may prove a sad exception. Many experts are unanimous that the year 2003 will be far from favorable for the...

The problems between Ukrainian mass media and big-time politics are not as big as they may appear, at least for the print media. This was the conclusion of the roundtable, A Nonpolitical View on the...

January 30, Serhiy Tyhypko, head of the National Bank of Ukraine, presented a draft of the 2003-2005 development program for the Ukrainian banking system. He outlined the new objectives of the...

A one man show by painter and graphic artist Oleksandr Breskin opened at the Akvarel [Watercolor] Gallery. Oleksandr Breskin is endowed with an impressive artistic temperament. First he paints a...

Whether or not Ukraine should join WTO is no longer on the agenda, as the choice has been made. Now the problem is to have more advantages than disadvantages. It is necessary to make the most of WTO...

All around the world people ask: what is the real motive for the Bush Administration’s threatened war with Iraq? Is it to curb weapons of mass destruction? Is it more personal, an act of vengeance by...

Werfolf, Hitler’s headquarters [rather, what’s left of it near Vinnytsia], is perhaps the last evidence of Nazi’s technological and organizational capacities that is left in Ukraine. However, the...

“In the former Soviet Union, there was a prestigious award, the Sign of Quality, which served as a stimulus for winning the so-called socialistic contest. Nowadays, market economy encourages good...

The 18th-century Ukrainian poet Simon Klymovsky, author of the famous song “A Cossack Went Over the Danube,” was considered a mythic figure for a long time. In 1905, however, historian Vsevolod...

February 4, 1648. A liberation war began in Ukraine with the uprising of Zaporizhian Cossacks. 1945. The beginning of the Crimean Conference in Yalta, where the leaders of three countries (UK, US...

January 28 was just another working day at the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery in Kyiv (the Amosov Institute in Ukraine — its popular and deserved name). Another surgery was...

January 28, two Presidents, Leonid Kuchma and Vladimir Putin, signed ten bilateral documents. Most of them dealt with healthcare and education issues, while one settled a land dispute over the...

As was reported before, on April 1 the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine will begin checking to see how Ukrainian parties obey the Law on Political Parties passed by the Parliament in April 2001. All...

Poland membership in the EU and visa requirements on the Ukrainian- Polish border is a fait accompli. The Ukrainian-Polish conference on European integration, now underway in Kyiv, is debating...