№41, (2002)

Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn made a number of desperate but futile attempts to put the National Bank’s leadership replacement issue to the vote in the first half of Tuesday, December 17, following...

Trying to picture the manager of the Shevchenko Homeland State Preserve, one is likely to end visualizing a dignified academic-type lady wearing thick glasses, or maybe an overconfident bureaucrat,...

It is not a new piece of information in principle that city builders, encouraged by the first “epoch-making” construction projects in Kyiv, have decided to go further and begin rebuilding temples....

Culture. The priority of this subject is called in question by this society with its multitude of problems remaining unsolved, by its poverty-stricken masses, underpaid and overburdened office...

LET’S NOT GET PANIC-STRICKEN There was an overemotional response in Ukraine to EU dignitaries saying that Ukraine’s EU membership makes no sense at the time, that the possibility won’t even be...

A decade wasted, working out costly impractical projects and stillborn programs, politicizing and overdramatizing things. Still no visible progress in solving any of the Chornobyl problems. Such was...

Talking about refined editions — in terms of contents and printing art — I am reminded of those small masterpieces produced by the Osnovy Publishers, even though most of them are not actually small;...

The prospective construction of a Jewish community center at Babyn Yar (place of a mass-scale execution of Kyivans by the Nazis — Ed.) has been the point of heated debates in both Jewish and non-...

The Cherkasy T. Shevchenko Music and Drama Theater has the other day hosted a charitable concert of the local chamber orchestra conducted by A. Diachenko, with the Ambassador of Belgium to Ukraine,...

December 18, the Handicapped Children’s Early Social Rehabilitation Center of Volochysk received its first patients . The new and much-needed institution has an extraordinary history. Last Christmas...

On December 19, St. Nicholas Day, politicians and officials visited orphanages, schools, and kindergartens to present gifts. Giving this good young tradition its due, let us still say that positive...

“Two days have passed so quickly, like a minute. Nevertheless, all the meetings have been very constructive,” Russian Duma Speaker Gennady Selezniov summed up his two-day visit to Kyiv at a press...

Some 1,200 dogs and their owners took part. For many of them their dogs were also a major source of income, so, apart from the competition, the exhibit was meant to detect the best breeds for...

Renowned couturier Serhiy Byzov, one of the cofounders of the Fashion Seasons in Ukraine, hadn’t demonstrated his collections in the Ukrainian pret-в-porter weeks for the last few years, preferring...

December 24: 1941. The OUN Kyiv branch started its underground fight against the Nazis. 1982. The An-124 transport plane accomplished its maiden flight in Kyiv. December 25: 1941. The Kerch-...