№44, (2011)

Fifteen years ago Ukraine saw the establishment of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), a leading think tank that was supposed to analyze risks and challenges for this country. Meanwhile...

The current vacation season of the Kyiv Philharmonic Society was adorned by the concert with the eloquent name “The Symphony of Love” by the National Chamber Ensemble, the Kyiv Soloists...

Never before in decades had the Kyiv Opera House seen as brilliant an assembly as it did on September 1, 1911. You could see all the high society there, including those who resided in the...

Two years ago Viktor Yushchenko signed the decree on the establishment of Brain Institute of Ukraine. Andrii Sliusarchuk — famous neurosurgeon, professor, and Doctor of Medicine had to be...

Russian authorities are stubbornly refusing to officially register the People’s Freedom Party (its popular Russian acronym being Parnas). There is little likelihood of any courts of law in...

Giovanna Brogi-Berkoff is one of the most respected authorities in the Slavic studies field in the West. She is Polish, Russian and Ukrainian studies scholar, Director of the Institute of Languages...

Today the Verkhovna Rada starts its ninth session of the sixth convocation. The MPs will return after the long vacations. However, many of them spent the summer in Kyiv near the Pechersk Court. The...

1672: Hetman Petro Doroshenko of Ukraine seizes Kamianets-Podilsky. 1924: Date of birth in Kyiv of Mykhailo Braichevsky, Ukrainian historian, archaeologist, man of letters, public figure, to...

Nearly six months ago, on March 11, the world witnessed with horror the tragic events unfolding in Japan: the earthquake, tsunami, and several accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. People...

President Bronislaw Komorowski said after a meeting with Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych at his Gdansk summer residence that the Tymoshenko case might seriously tarnish the reputation of...

This writer clearly noticed in late August that the official Russian media that strictly follow the Moscow leadership’s line began to show a new tonality. But let us recall the beginning. In...

An exhibit to selebrate the centennial of a famous Ukrainian painter Serhii Shyshko has been opened in Chernivtsi Regional Art Museum. The board of art exhibitions at the Ministry of Culture and...

Ukraine’s stated desire to reorganize NAK Naftohaz Ukrainy caused another round of verbal attacks between Russia and Ukraine in the gas sector. It all started with President Viktor Yanukovych...

Food prices would remain stable for the rest of the year, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Prysiazhniuk told journalists on August 31. “We are not concerned about any...