№5, (2011)

US President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech was, in fact, the launch of the 2012 election campaign. His speech lasted 61 minutes. The president determined the guidelines of US progress and...

DNIPROPETROVSK – The conductor of the Russian symphony orchestra Eduard Diadiura originates from Dnipropetrovsk. His concerts have been played to great success in the Czech Republic, the US, Spain,...

For several years international experts have been speculating about the immense energy crisis that will break out after the world’s oil and gas reserves are strained to the limit. Nowadays,...

Most likely coincidentally, on the eve of Unity Day, precisely when Makiivka’s peace was shattered by explosions (later officially recognized as acts of terrorism), the Russian embassy in...

The Central Council of Ukraine, created in March 1917, was a stepping stone toward Ukraine’s independence and the establishment of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. Shortly after the new...

  Regional radiation therapy center to be set up in Rivne  Medical equipment worth five million dollars is to be provided to the Rivne regional oncological clinic based on an...

1879: UNR General and politician Mykola Kapustiansky is born. 1918: Troops under the command of Symon Petliura, Yevhen Konovalets, and Vsevolod Petrov enter Kyiv and suppress the Arsenal workers’...

A somewhat outdated name doesn’t prevent Zhovten from being one of the most progressive cinemas in Kyiv. It has a quality festival and art-house movies in its repertoire. The cinema has a long...

The woman that you see in the picture is Daria TKACH from Lviv. Most of her life she worked as a documentary film director at the Lviv state television. Yet that is not how I would describe her....

Ukrainian sports fans have a reason to rejoice. On July 30-31, 2011, one of the F1 Powerboat World Championship’s stages will be held on the water reservoir near Vyshhorod (Kyiv oblast). The protocol...

Considering that high culture, unlike lowbrow culture, is a margi­nal phenomenon in Ukrainian television, the “Weekend with ARTE” project, announced by the First National Channel, is a significant...

The principle of “you’re the fool” is nearly the most important element of political polemics in our country. By the way, it is used by all political forces with nearly the same...

Lviv is hosting an ice symposium. Leopolitan ice sculptors, led by Myroslav Dedyshyn, benefited from the winter’s return to the city. Ice sculptures are being erected in the Rynok, the Lion...

When talking about the natural resources of Do­netsk region, the first thing that comes to mind is, of course, coal. Not everyone knows that the industrial land is also abundant in fields of kaolin,...

Lina Kostenko’s new book, River of Heraclitus, is to be launched on Februa­ry 2. This is the third joint pro­ject of the Lybid publishers and the prominent Ukrainian poetess, the...