№47, (2016)

Celebratory fanfares, rehearsals of the Independence Day parade, fiery speeches and Ukrainian troops entering Ilovaisk – these were the defining features of August 2014. In the second half of...

From day to day, press in the United States writes about new scandals involving the presidential candidates from Republican and Democratic parties. As usual, some of the scandals concern the matters...

Last week German daily newspaper Bild criticized Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier for his speech before the students of the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg...

(Continued from the previous issue)August 19 marked the 25th anniversary of an armed attempt by the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP) to save the Soviet Union. Gennady Burbulis, the...

The Internet project Ukraine Incognita has been studying and reconsidering Ukrainian history using electronic means for five years already. Let us recall that it got its name from the eponymous first...

Rus’ Prince Sviatoslav Ihorovych occupies a special place in Ukrainian historical identity. The conqueror of the Khazars, Volga Bulgarians, Alans, Radimichs, and other tribes, who looked like a...

This summer has been hot at the Donbas front, with gunfire in Crimea. It is apparently high time NATO arrived at certain conclusions regarding Russia’s aggressive plans. The Alliance took its...

Kira Muratova made her previous film, Eternal Homecoming, in 2012.A lot of changes have occurred since then. What remains unchanged is Muratova’s prominent place in Ukrainian and international...

It is not so easy anymore to impress the public with drama performances and concerts. In the artistic world, the National Operetta has defined its own format of the event which the audience has been...

In June and July this year the National Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kaniv hosted the exhibition entitled “Around Taras” by Lviv muralist Valerii Shalenko. An act of tribute and respect to...

The Prague firefight hydrants emerged in Uzhhorod streets back in 1930 – after the plumbing system was built. The project of the local plumbing system was designed by the company of engineer...

Sad tidings came from New York: the sculptor who became one of the icons of contemporary art had died at the age of 91. The news was reported by Echo of Moscow, a radio station, referring to...