№44, (2010)

Ukrainian Paralympic soccer team wins European titleThe Ukrainian national team has won the Cerebral Palsy European Soccer Championships and will thus vie in the 14th Summer Paralympics scheduled for...

Last Monday members of parliament cut short their vacations to rescind a discriminatory clause on local party cells. Now all parties, old and new, can take part in the October 31 elections. 264 MPs...

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov once again made a show of himself while visiting the Latvian capital, Riga. He proposed to institute Russian as the second official language in this Baltic state: “I think...

European integration remains a priority for our state, Yanukovych stated in his address on the 19th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. Ukraine’s entry into the international...

1794: The City of Odesa is founded. 1913: The 1st All-Russia Olympiad begins in Kyiv. 1918: The Presidium of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee institutes the highest Red Army rank: Commander...

While directors, actors, and other theater-related staff are getting ready to meet their audiences, the public is looking for the best shows to start the new season. First nights and anniversaries,...

The international project “PORTO FRANKO-2010,” which combines visual art, music, photography, theater, cinema, and art cuisine from around the world, took place in the capital of Prykarpattia region...

Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has made it clear in an interview with Kommersant that police will continue to disperse rallies being held without governmental permission. In Putin’s view,...

Germany is a very important political and economic actor in the European Union and internationally. Ukraine is only too well aware of this. This may well be the reason why President Yanukovych paid...

NEW YORK – The Roma have been persecuted across Europe for centuries. Now they face a form of discrimination unseen in Europe since World War II: group evictions and expulsions from several European...

Back in times of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas who pioneered the idea of patronage, people tried to conceive the necessity of it. Patronage has a peculiar meaning for Ukraine. The lack of funding has had a...

Over the 19 years of independence Ukraine has made a huge jump from a closed society with deformed links to more a civil one. The country has already fulfilled a major goal: it has created the...

People tend to have different definitions of a vacation. This may be the reason why a poll, held by the Kyiv International Institute in June 2010, asking Ukrainians what kind of vacations they were...

The creation of alternatives for children threatened by alcoholism is essential to overcoming this social plague. If our government wants healthy teenagers it must organize alternative pastimes:...

The WHO began holding training seminars for militiamen to teach law enforcement officers how to impose fines for smoking where prohibited. District militia officers will participate in the seminars....