№42, (2006)

Nearly 2,000 works were submitted to the Organizing Committee of Ukraine’s National Children’s Library, with more than 1,400 children from 26 oblasts, the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea, Kyiv, and...

The Ukrainian government has a positive view of the first meeting of the Yushchenko-Putin Commission, which took place last Friday in Kyiv. President Yushchenko told a press conference that both...

The prospects for Ukraine’s membership in the EU are impossible today. Therefore, at the present stage the Eurocommunity is offering Kyiv advanced and sectoral cooperation. This is how Germany views...

Last week the first meeting of the Regional Development Council was brought to order under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, leader of the Party of Regions. One of the causes of...

Ukraine and Russia seem to be taking an increasingly constructive approach to tackling thorny problems. Both Kyiv and Moscow are showing interest in cooperation. This particularly concerns the joint...

Nikolai Grigorievich Repnin (1778-1845), the prominent Russian military and statesman of Left-Bank Ukraine in the first half of the 19th century, was born into the Volkonsky Russian noble family. The...

In the New Year we will meet again on January 16, taking time out for New Year’s Day and Christmas, which we celebrate according the Julian calendar on January 7, and winding up with Epiphany twelve...

Finland optimistically concludes its presiding the EU. The chairperson’s position will go to Germany from January 1, 2007 for a six-month term. Official Helsinki is looking at the relations between...

Nearly 40 designers presented one dress each before a large audience in the fantasy and pret-a-porter de luxe nominations. Two famous Italian designers were invited to judge the talents and...

It seemed to be all smooth at first: all the factions, except for the Communists (KPU), took part in drawing up the bill. This prompted analysts to say that the “opposition bible” was very likely to...

One cannot properly understand the history of the Ukrainian National Revolution of 1918-21 without examining such phenomena as the Ukrainian insurgent movement. At the time, the wide expanses of...

2004. Ukrainian residents came to the electoral districts to elect the President of Ukraine for the third time in the last two months. Dec. 27 2004. Hert Arens, the head of the Observation Mission...

Preparations had clearly been made for Tarasiuk’s arrival. Three MPs from the Party of Regions - Vladyslav Lukianov, Volodymyr Zubanov, and Yurii Miroshnishenko - stood in the hall in front of the...

In terms of financing and, above all, time, this show turned out to be one of the biggest productions every staged by Roger Waters, a founder of Pink Floyd. The show was choreographed and directed by...

The city authorities and residents of Dniprodzerzhynske, the “small homeland” of Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, recently marked his birth centennial. On Dec. 19, his...