№51, (2011)

Ex-presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov of the Republic of Belarus, currently political pri-soner, is being transferred from the penal colony of Navapolatsk to that of Babruysk. There are reasons...

Lemkivshchyna, also known as Lemkovyna, Lemkovshchina or Lemkowszczyzna in Polish, is a scenic territory traditionally inhabited by Lemkos. This territory stretches from the Beskids (a traditional...

The Poems in the Subway campaign was launched on September 26, aiming at promotion of contemporary poetry. Its core activity is posting of Polish poems in the capital’s subway stations, from...

On Monday, Russia’s ruling party, United Russia’s convention, made headlines in the world’s leading media after Vladimir Putin suggested that Dmitry Medvedev head United Russia...

While some are chatting endlessly, others are doing something – silently and without too much fuss. Some media alleged the other day that the Party of Regions and the People’s Party had...

UEFA president Michel Platini said on September 27 that Ukraine was ready to host Euro-2012. The chief European football inspector made his conclusion after his two-day inspection of the four...

This Polish politician, human rights activist, ex-President of Poland (1990-95), ex-leader of the Solidarity trade-union movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, electrician without a post-...

1917: The Small Rada in Kyiv adopts a declaration of the General Secretariat, confirming Ukrainian statehood and outlining the nation-state-building guidelines. 1920: Makhno’s Revolutionary...

On September 29th, 1941, about 8 a.m. Jews who lived in Kyiv gathered on the corner of Melnykova and Dehtiarivska streets. They brought money, documents, valuable things and warm clothes with them,...

Recently the mayor of Kyiv Oleksandr Popov visited Andriivsky uzviz, where he stated in front of cameras that “this street is an adornment not only to Kyiv but to the whole of Ukraine.” Nevertheless...

The 7th International Salon of Inventions and New Technologies “New Time” took place recently in Sevastopol, the date having been chosen so as to coincide with the Inventors and Innovators’ Day...

The National Circus of Ukraine opened a new season under this name. The main number of the program is “The attraction of predatory animals,” which involves ten predators, and the main “stars” are two...

Without doubt, the arrival of the Swiss owner of the law firm in Lugano Roberto Haab became the main event of the international symposium. As the guest noted, there are no descendants of the...

Europe was going to close its borders to illegal timber on January 1, 2012. This decision was made two years ago, when European Parliament members accepted a proposal to ban illegal trade in wood....

Recently, on September 23–24, Nova Kakhovka, Kherson oblast, hosted the 5th annual international investment forum “Tauric Horizons: Attractiveness, Cooperation, Investments, and...