№5, (2005)

The phrase in the headline is the way Volodymyr Fesenko, president of the Penta Center for Applied Political Research, characterized the current situation in Ukrainian politics during a roundtable on...

Being alive, we tend to think that life is easy to grasp. In the accepted classification of sciences, mathematics is thought to be the queen, and the most difficult to grasp, followed by physics,...

A documentary on the Great Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine was recently aired on one of the Ukrainian channels, or so they say. I’m telling you this because my late husband, James Mace,...

Kyiv’s folk-pop group Bozhychi is a real phenomenon in the capital’s cultural life. Born slightly over five years ago, they have attracted the attention of a variety of intellectual groups of...

Sustainable development has been discussed in Ukraine for at least twelve years. The debates began with the Planet Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which adopted the concept of an economically,...

February 15. 1574. In Lviv Ivan Fedorov published reputedly the first printed book in the Ukrainian land, The Apostle. 1919. The Ukrainian National Rada passed a law On Using the Ukrainian Language...

Recently the residents of several high-rise buildings at the end of Ruska Street, in a residential neighborhood of Chernivtsi, unwittingly found themselves at the center of a phenomenon known as the...

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, Oleh Rybachuk, has announced that Ukraine will cancel visas for citizens of European Union member states. He noted that Europeans who wish to...

A roundtable entitled “Politics in the Sphere of Culture: Partnership between the Creative Community and the State,” and organized by an initiative group of Kyiv-based cultural activists, was...

The American Association of Political Consultants has presented Viktor Yushchenko’s election campaign team with a special award, “International Campaign Team of the Year,” Radio Liberty reports. AAPC...

The administrative reform promised by the new government has not been long in coming. Last Saturday the Cabinet of Ministers passed a resolution to dissolve fourteen executive agencies, most of them...

Chornobyl’s official Web site (http://www. chnpp.atom.gov.ua) contains data that will increase your heart rate. The specific characteristic of the Shelter (popularly known as the sarcophagus) is its...

At a press conference held in Zhytomyr on February 8 President Yushchenko indicated that in the course of the administrative reform he intends to reduce the number of state committees and other...

The 60th anniversary of the Yalta Conference was a low-key affair in the Crimea. There was a rally and a flypast of airplanes from participating countries at Saki Airfield, two exhibitions at the...

Ukraine will not implement documents on accession to the Single Economic Space if it decides that they do not mesh with its national interests. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European...