№44, (2012)

The 30th Summer Olympic Games ended in London on August 12 with an impressive extravaganza. For 16 days on end, the entire world was riveted to Britain’s capital, where the best athletes of...

Yuri Milner, a Russian investor, co-owner of Mail.Ru Group and the investment foundation Digital Sky Technologies (DST), started a new annual scholarly award Fundamental Physics Prize. This...

Knowing how to do things thoroughly and soundly was not a vogue but natural behavior for old-time Mykolaiv residents, when they had to reclaim a living space from the wild steppe. For example, the...

The Group of Twenty (G20) countries may call an unscheduled session in late August to discuss a steep hike in grain prices on the world market. The initiative comes from France which held the G20...

Until recently the icon “Holy Mother of God” has been preserved in the temple of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church in Chicago (US). It was brought to Lutsk by Father Ivan Boiarchuk, senior priest of...

At the homeland of the first Ukrainian book, the village of Peresopnytsia in the region of Rivne the excavations are in progress. Except professional archeologists their participants include members...

On August 8 the premiere screening of Ukrainian director Eva Neiman’s movie House with a Turret, which won a prize of the international film festival in Karlovy Vary (the Czech Republic), took place...

The trial hearings on the case of punk band Pussy Riot ended in Russia with the closing statement of the accused. The hearings were held for eight days in a row in Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow –...

Transnistria is again in the limelight. Moscow’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta wrote that “Tiraspol wants to replace the peacekeeping mission on the Dnister with Russia’s military base. According to a source...

988: Prince Volodymyr orders Rus’-Ukraine baptized. 1385: The Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania make the Union of Krewo whereby the Ukrainian lands become part of the kingdom. 1581:...

He was born in Mykolaiv a few blocks away from the shipyard and dreamed of becoming a well-known shipbuilder, but, instead, he overturned the entire Jewish world. The would-be 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe...

Ukrainian history calendars have reminded us of one of the many myths: August 9 marks the 70th anniversary of what is popularly known as Kyiv “death match.” But very few know that the events, which...

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the implementation of alternative energy projects in the Chornobyl Power Plant Zone of Alienation. This is confirmed by governmental instruction No.535-r...

Exposition “Scenography+” features works of four masters, who represent Artists’ Section of Theater, Cinema and Television at the Kyiv Organization of the Ukrainian National Union of Artists (Viktor...