№43, (2010)

Announcing President Yanukovych’s state visit to China, scheduled for September 2-5, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Kostiantyn Hryshchenko said that “the Chinese party is...

Independence Day in Kyiv was once again embellished by the annual flower exhibit on the Field of Songs. The 55th jubilee exhibit was devoted to rushnyks (decorative towels) and accordingly called...

During the Ukrainian civil war of 1917-21 there were two great military and political forces: militarized formations of Ukrainian People’s Republic and the insurgent army of Nestor Ivanovych...

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Association is concerned over the Education Ministry’s idea of instituting school and college student electronic season tickets because this will enable...

IMF’s Strauss-Khan may beat Sarkozy in presidential election Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director, is the most popular Socialist candidate for...

Recently the Kyiv council decided to assume power in the capital, by harassing, or possibly eliminating their rivals: the district councils. A corresponding initiative came from acting mayor...

Many people remember how their hearts throbbed when in the morning of August 19, 1991, the television and radio announcers — in formal voices — announced the introduction of the state...

For four days the Kyiv International Book Exhibit-Fair was swirling in the International Exhibit Center on the capital’s left bank. During the capital’s largest book forum hundreds of thousands of...

On Monday, August 30, Ukraine’s ruling coalition changed the electoral law enabling newly established parties to participate in the coming local elections. The previous ammendments were heavily...

1869: The settlement of Yuzovka is founded (in 1924-61 known as Stalino, then renamed Donetsk). 1919: Troops of the Ukrainian National Republic and the Ukrainian Galician Army force the Red Army to...

The Italians still honor the unsurpassed Ukrainian Solomia Krushelnytska. A bust of opera diva stands next to Caruso’s portrait in the La Scala theater in Milan. The same sculpture decorates...

The first time the opera by Heorhii Maiboroda was performed on the Kyiv stage was in 1975. It was an ornament to the repertoire for more than ten seasons. By the way, for a long time this work, which...

Late summer in Volhynia is a time for international “ethnofests.” Two oblast centers, Lutsk and Rivne, became the stage for folk bands from Ukraine and abroad. The fest included people from Belarus,...

OJSC Concern Stirol, from Horlivka, Donetsk region, attracted a Ukrainian investor, though he will only be identified within a month or month-and-half’s time due to confidentiality requirements, said...

At the Presnya district court in Moscow, the magistrate ruled on a case against Boris Nemtsov, who is accused of disobeying the lawful demands of the police during The Day of the Russian Flag march...