№5, (2002)

“The European Union and Ukraine can hear each other better now,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko said in an interview. To hear better means to understand better, which represents perhaps...

Kyiv’s Museum of Russian History and the local Aleksandr Pushkin Museum are staging an exposition, I Saw Pushkin in a Dream... with a series of works by the noted illustrator and Pushkin researcher...

The Kyiv Appellate Court has two months to pass judgment in the 1+1 channel case, a little before the elections. This is prime time to keep the most popular national channel in suspense, making the...

The CD with the first Ukrainian rock opera Aeneid was played at a presentation at the Deja Vu Restaurant on February 3, and the whole affair had every hallmark of the Event of the Year. Small wonder...

On February 7 Verkhovna Rada passed a resolution stripping ex- Premier Pavlo Lazarenko of parliamentary membership by an absolute majority of votes (337 ayes and 0 nays). Paradoxically, accused by...

Next year Kyiv’s Goethe Institute, the German cultural center, will celebrate its tenth anniversary. Like the other 128 branches of the Goethe Institute in 76 countries, it makes a contribution to...

A total of 891 US Air Force planes crossed Ukraine’s airspace as part of the antiterrorist operation in Afghanistan. The Defense Ministry press service informed Interfax-Ukraine that from October 9,...

In its figurative meaning in Ukrainian, the white raven stands for an undiscovered genius, the talk of the town, a troublemaker, an almost unreal image. However, there are not many places in the...

President Leonid Kuchma has set the goal of Ukraine joining the European Union by 2011. “Let us assign ourselves the task: in the course of ten years we must carry out all crucial transformations in...

The new book by Tetiana Kara-Vasylieva, Masterpieces of Church Needlework in Ukraine (Twelfth to Twentieth Centuries) introduces readers to one of the most interesting and yet little known areas of...

Verkhovna Rada agreed on February 7 to dismiss Ivan Drach as chairman of the State Committee for Information Policies, Television, and Radio and to appoint People’s Deputy Ivan Chyzh to this office....

Mikhail Bulgakov and Kyiv, the city in White Guard and Sergei Maksudov’s homeland in Black Snow: A Theatrical Novel; portrayals of the Dnipro spring flood, with the water “merging with the horizon”...

On February 1, talks were held in Zhytomyr to discuss the issue of starting a Social Investment Fund project in Zhytomyr oblast. The talks were attended by a Ukrainian Social Investment Fund...

Yury RYBCHYNSKY, author of the White Raven rock opera: The white raven notion can be applied to politics and society, as politics is a part of society. In general, anything exceeding the...

February 12: 1960. The first Ukrainian nuclear research reactor was put into operation. 1991. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a decision to renew the Crimean Autonomous Republic. February 13...