№40, (2006)

Last week Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych reported to President Viktor Yushchenko on the results of his four-day visit to the US. As the president’s press service announced, during the meeting on...

The works of Richard Wagner opened a new chapter in the history of world drama and musical art. It has long surpassed the limits of space and time. Today this composer is being written and argued...

The recently opened exhibit at Dormition Cathedral is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical-Cultural Preserve and the 995th anniversary of the founding of the...

After Lviv, Kamianets-Podilsky is one of my favorite cities, so I enjoy every visit. The residents are not certain when their city was founded, although everyone agrees that it is one of a handful of...

The Ukrainian Grain Association proposed an evaluation of the grain export situation during a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council. “The decision to curtail exports has notably...

Nearly one million people in Ukraine are addicted to drugs or alcohol. These are people who in one way or another have ended up in medical or law enforcement institutions and declared their special...

An exhibit of paintings and graphics from the private collections of the Lutsk artist Karel Yakubek recently opened at the National Taras Shevchenko Museum, where a vernissage was also held. This is...

Presenting the European Commission’s new proposals aimed at deepening the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), which also envisages cooperation between Ukraine and the EU, European Commissioner for...

“Man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the “Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one,”...

The State Reserves Commission (Derzhkomrezerv) is short 340,000 tons of grain. Its chairman, Viktor Kyrychenko, believes this grain was stolen. An additional 40,000 tons were sold at the low price of...

Only those who loved Mykola Bidniak and appreciated his talent were present at the unveiling of his gravestone in Lychakiv Cemetery. Perhaps this is the way it was meant to be? Maybe outsiders...

Ukraine failed to make full use of the opportunities that it had after the proclamation of independence and the positive results of the referendum on Dec. 1, 1991. Nor have lessons been learned...

A new boutique, Atelier-1, opened at Vozdvyzhensky Hotel on Andriivsky Uzviz this weekend. Under the creative guidance of Oxford Media Business School’s leading design instructor David Foley...

The media recently published a statement by one of the heads of Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism concerning the possible return of 12th-century frescoes from St. Michael’s Golden-Domed...

A new “married couple” has emerged on Ukraine’s political stage. The heart of the BYuT opposition could not resist the wooing of the Party of Reforms and Order (PRP). The PRP, now led by former...