№41, (2005)

Our traditional Friday column “Author’s Page” offers not only an individual viewpoint but also a non-traditional style that does not always fit a normal newspaper format. The column features a kind...

The restoration of a unique 12th-century monument, St. Cyril’s Church in Kyiv, is nearing completion. The church is still closed to visitors, as the surrounding premises are still being landscaped,...

“I would not describe the current state of relations with Russia as tension. I have a lot of experience in developing relations with Moscow. Believe me, this is not tension,” Ukraine’s Foreign...

More than 50,000 chickens and geese have been seized and destroyed in the quarantine zone during the two weeks of combating bird flu in the Crimea. According to the Public Relations Center of the...

“We are awaiting a positive assessment of Ukraine in the direction of joining the World Trade Organization, and I think Ukraine has earned this high evaluation,” said Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov...

There is supreme justice after all. You must agree that it would not be dignified for a country with three soccer players who have won the Golden Ball, the Oscar of soccer, if there were one, to...

Ukraine remembers the victims of the Solovky tragedy in the months of October and November, when over 1,100 “counterrevolutionaries” were executed during the “Great Terror.” Other mass shootings took...

The Poles have been forced to admit that Ukrainian-Polish economic relations have entered a winter period in both the literal and figurative meanings. Compared to the past two years of a burgeoning...

In 1995, when the organizers of the foundation (music specialist and current president Yuri Zilberman and the late composer Ivan Karabyts) had just begun their work, they dreamed of discovering...

A trilateral memorandum of cooperation has been signed in Eisenstadt (Austria) between Lviv’s Municipal Children’s Hospital, the Barmherziger Bruder Hospital, and the international benevolent...

The gas problem has become a key factor of pre-election politics in the past few days. We would even welcome it if this were the last year of our life in this country. On Dec. 16 Prime Minister Yuriy...

On Dec. 13 the Ukrainian parliament questioned government ministers about problems connected to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down exactly five years ago. Unlike the plant itself...

Pope John Paul II was one of the chosen few historic personalities that the human race has always direly needed and almost never encounters — individuals who are universally respected, even by sworn...

The European Parliament has approved a decision to investigate information about secret CIA prisons on European territory, in which terror suspects are allegedly being held. The leaders of the...

Ceramics are the oldest form of figurative art; impressions of human hands found on clay objects are early man’s first attempt to vanquish time. No other material appeals to man’s creative instinct...