№59, (2012)

On October 7 the Syrian capital at dawn was once again rocked by explosions and gunfire. According to the incoming reports, two gunmen attacked a police station in the city center – in the...

1621: The Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Khotyn, with the contracting parties undertaking to restrain the Cossacks from raiding Turkish and Polish possessions....

Every year more than 700,000 people die in Ukraine, including 500,000 in need of professional palliative care. According to the Ukrainian League for Palliative and Hospice Care Development, cancer...

Archeological excavations in the historic center of the city – Castle Hill are still in progress. A series of events took place before archeologists started their work at the site.In 1990 Holy...

On October 7 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin marked his 60th birthday anniversary. For our northern neighbor (just as for its other neighbors) this event means something more than just a...

Parliament has taken one more step towards land market in Ukraine by refusing to extend the moratorium on agricultural land sale until 2014. Only 111 MPs favored giving the moratorium a new lease...

Genre of oral history is one of the most important tools of historical cognition, since it gives an opportunity to concretize and define certain scientific statements by looking at the problem from...

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted in the first reading for the bill on amendments to some legislative acts (to protect children’s rights to secure information space). The bill was supported by...

On September 26, Russia’s biggest state-controlled Rosneft oil company and a subsidiary of Venezuela’s PDVSA, La Corporacion Venezolana del Petroleo (CVP), signed trade agreements worth about 20...

Yesterday the 111th Nobel Prize week was opened in Stockholm (Sweden). Reportedly by UNIAN, this year’s Nobel cash prize is eight million Swedish kronas, which is an equivalent to...

In the past few days Ukraine has shown increasing interest to its energy security. Presentation of the research “Ukraine’s Energy Security Challenges” held within the framework of...

It is both easy and complicated to present Kyrylo Karabyts. It is easy to start: he is a son of famous composer Ivan Karabyts and noted music expert, pedagogue at the NMAU Marianna Kopytsia. He was...

Anatolii Melnyk has been working as a director of the National Art Museum for 12 years. Most of this time he has hardly ever taken a brush, since, as he confessed, he has had no time. However, the...

Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Azarov to include Russia’s ruble in the first group of currencies (according to the Ukrainian National Bank’s...

Bill on abolishing the duties on a number of goods that are imported into Ukraine for the needs of aircraft manufacturers until 2016 was registered in the parliament. The author of the document is...