№52, (2010)

Israel brought together the poet Igor Guberman and the artist Aleksandr Okun, who used to live in Kharkiv and St. Petersburg, respectively. Guberman, who is widely known for his quatrains Gariki,...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

The Mariupol shelter for the homeless will build a bathhouse. The local authorities assigned 250,000 hryvnias for the modernization of the complex. “We want socially unprotected people to have an...

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...

The end of summer brought forth shocking news of a Russian festival being attacked by skinheads. About a hundred thugs broke into the camp near the city of Miass, where participants of the festival...

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-...

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...

The University of Cambridge is opening a permanent program in Ukrainian studies, where students will be able to learn the Ukrainian language and culture. In fact, there are very few departments 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...

Despite the rainy weather, the open-air theater in Mariinsky park was filled with inflammatory Latin American dances, songs and music. September either indulges us with Indian summer or fills the...

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...

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...