№4, (2007)

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Steven Pifer has occupied various diplomatic posts in the past 27 years, including that of the US ambassador to Ukraine. For a number of years in his State Department career he was responsible for US...

Feb. 6 1919: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR (Radnarkom) forwards a note to the governments of Great Britain, US, France, and Japan, protesting the Entente’s intervention in...

In one way Ukraine is not lagging behind Europe. Like everywhere else in the world, cancer incidence and the mortality rate in Ukraine are increasing every year. In 2006 the Ministry of Health’s...

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...

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...

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...

Suzanne Nies, the director of the Paris-based Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) is a long-time researcher of the European Union, transatlantic relations, the countries of...

Dr. Nikolai Zlobin, director of the Russia and Eurasia Project at the Washington-based World Security Institute, specializes in US-Russian relations, international security, US policies toward Europe...

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 (...

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...

More than 15 years have passed since the collapse of one of the largest and cruelest empires of the modern world. Yet its former subordinates, living in countries stretching from Belarus to Russia’s...