№56, (2013)

IZOlab.org is the website of Ukraine’s first fab lab in Donetsk. Here one can virtually make everything out of nothing, including the building of homes [using the concept developed by MIT...

In post-war times only Helmut Kohl and Konrad Adenauer managed to get reelected for the third term as a chancellor. Angela Merkel became the third person who did that, winning the parliamentary...

In October Cambridge Ukrainian Studies will launch Shevchenko2014.org, a website which will become an instrument to promote the activities celebrating the bicentennial of Taras Shevchenko in the...

You do not have to be an expert to properly evaluate what is at stake in the relations of the European Union and Easter Partnership countries. Teasingly but honestly speaking, it is not all about the...

As part of the Week of Germany in Ukraine, the exhibition “Touch the Math!” has opened at the Kyiv Palace of Children and Youth. The project “Schools: Partners of the Future,...

This year the program of the festival is dedicated to the momentous date – the 200th birth anniversary of Taras Shevchenko. Musicians will perform compositions associated with the name of the...

As the nation honored the memory of the murdered journalist Heorhii Gongadze, former president Leonid Kuchma was handing out scholarships to students. Why would such an incongruity draw public...

For a long time Ukraine has not paid attention to Scandinavian countries, in particular, such country as Norway. Only this year Prime Minister Mykola Azarov paid visit to this country. Why is it...

This year Ukraine, as the head of the OSCE, has a lot of reasons to assert itself on the international and domestic arenas. Another opportunity to do that was the conference “The Role of...

Iran intends to purchase 20 An-148 jet planes and as many An-140 turboprops. This is reported by Iranian media with a reference to one of the leaders of the Republic’s air traffic. There is no...

Entrepreneurs from Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts complain that they have not been paid for the services provided for Euro-2012. This is what director of “Prykarpatbudtrans” Ivan Bodnar...

On October 1, Ukraine and the rest of the world will observe the International Day of Older Persons. People aged 60 and over account for 21 percent of Ukraine’s population today. According to a...

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, leader of the opposition party Civic Program, seems to be willing to come back to politics. This conclusion can be made from his latest policy article, “What Next...

It seems that MPs have decided they had suffered enough detailed and sensitive photos, reports and TV programs coming from the parliament’s meeting chamber. No wonder, as thanks to the efforts...

The state is everything, and man is a pawn. The world has lived for millennia with an etatist life philosophy that absolutizes the role of the state. Therefore, every sound-minded person intuitively...