№4, (2007)
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Cocktail tour
A novel event recently took place in Kyiv’s cultural life: a cocktail tour called “Ukrainian Culture in Color, Sound, and Taste,” organized by the director Serhii Proskuryn in honor of the Art Museum...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
When borders do not matter
Ukraine and Uzbekistan have a powerful potential for mutually-advantageous cooperation in various fields. However, many Ukrainian institutions do not have the faintest idea that such opportunities...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Burying nature
Okechukwu Ibeanu, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Toxic Wastes, visited Ukraine last week. During his visit the UN official traveled to several regions, including Zakarpattia and Lviv oblasts,...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Creator of the Sakhnivka miracle
Oleksandr Zakharenko died four years before his 70th jubilee. A good way to begin familiarizing oneself with this great educator is by exploring the exhibit organized at the Teacher’s House in Kyiv....
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Political sabbathon a grave
Ukrainian democracy finally pinned our politicians to the wall, and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a resolution recognizing the 1932-33 Holodomor as genocide. This is a great victory of all the...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Hetman Ivan Mazepa and the renaissance of national culture
On July 25, 1687, the general Cossack Council elected General Osaul Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa Ukrainian hetman “according to the customs and ancient rights by free voting.” The bearer of the hetman’s...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Yevhen MARCHUK: “Davos was a success for Yanukovych”
In the political arena of independent Ukraine Yevhen Marchuk’s activity has always been coupled with leading positions in structures that in one way or another are connected to the protection of...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Test for every third student
Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science has changed its plans for nationwide external testing for grade school leavers this year. Minister Stanislav Nikolaienko announced that only one-third of...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
First monograph on graphic arts in 15 years
Recently a relative of mine, a history student from Lausanne University, who is writing her M.A. thesis on the avant-garde artist Oleksandr Bohomazov, and I were looking for books on Ukrainian art of...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Michel DUREY: We want to make sure Ukraine’s declarations are backed by deeds
the year I was invited to Ukraine by the Ukraine Society for Contacts with Michel Durey, director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kyiv, has been dealing with matters relating to...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
A dilettante’s reflections on governing
Governing society has long been regarded as one of the most important and difficult arts, for which one has to have innate talent and continue to master for a lifetime. But in some countries it is...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Will Pyrohove museum survive?
After the dismantling of the “Kyiv fortress” the Pyrohove State Museum of People’s Architecture and Folkways of Ukraine is in danger of being next in line for destruction. The Kyiv City Council has...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Cabinet law now printed
Last week the law “On the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine” was published in the official periodicals of parliament and the government — Holos Ukraiiny (Voice of Ukraine) and Uriadovyi Kurier (...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
Virtual re-export
Ukraine’s Ministry of Agricultural Policy is continuing its inspections of Ukrainian winemaking enterprises. Ministry representatives point out that this is the best manner of responding to the...
06.02.2007 - 00:00
A chance for the best
The winners of Viktor Pinchuk’s Zavtra.UA foundation scholarship program came to Kyiv on a “Dream” to see their dream come true, flying in on the world’s largest Ukrainian-made aircraft Mriia (“Dream...