№52, (2010)

The mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov tried to implement the famous phrase of Clausewitz, about attack being the best defense. Having returned from his vacation, the third one this year, the mayor of...

On his way to Ukraine in 1859, Taras Shevchenko’s first stop was the village Lykhvyn, Dmytro Khrushchov’s propriety. TO LYKHVYN! Setting off for Ukraine from St. Petersburg, Taras...

During the next plenary week (October 5-8) the Ukrainian parliament will start working on the new Tax Code. Ukraine’s Prime Minister Mykola Azarov hopes that this most important document will...

“It wouldn’t be true to say that Lina Kostenko’s 80th birthday was widely celebrated in Ukraine. This makes her poetic soirees, which are now organized by her devotees, all the...

Innovations have a major impact on a country’s competitiveness. They make the economy more efficient, improve living standards, and increase the country’s prestige on the international...

On September 27, while the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych was summarizing the first conclusions of the activity of the committee on economic reforms at its enlarged meeting, experts once...

Trukhaniv Island, on the Dnipro in Kyiv, will host the fourth international music festival Rock Sich on October 2 and 3. It will involve some 40 performers and rock bands, including Oleh Skrypka...

1614: Cossack starshyna brass and Polish commissioners sign an agreement curbing Cossack rights and making the registered Cossacks serve as border guard units and live only in Zaporizhia. 1876: Kyiv-...

For 13 consecutive years already Ukraine has had its own niche in the complex system of national fashion weeks. According to the general producer of the Ukrainian Fashion Week (UFW) Volodymyr...

According to Vadym PYSARIEV, art director of the Solovianenko Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theater, in spring his theater was highly appreciated in Ukraine’s western regions: “We staged...

The party Our Ukraine convened a congress under the slogan “Renewal for Victory!” on September 24. The congress elected the political council of the party, comprising 140 persons....

This year the Crimean peninsula has been visited by a larger number of tourists than in the previous year. From January to August 2010, the number of people vacationing in the Autonomous Republic of...

Every artist is interesting first of all as a person. At the same time, the artist’s adherence to a particular school, within which the creator finds an expression for his personality, is...

One of the world’s major manufacturers of electrical transformer equipment, Zaporizhtransformator (ZTR), is planning to deliver three transformers, at a total cost of 30.5 million hryvnias, in...

Russian experts are busy drawing up a concept that envisages Russia’s alliance or even integration with NATO. This was reported on September 22 on the inosmi.ru website which quoted Igor...