№6, (2000)

Chairman of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, has at last dotted the first i’s, announcing to the public what the European Union should achieve, when it should achieve it, and what will happen...

For Ivan Putrov, student at the College of Choreography in Kyiv, a turning point in his life began in 1995 when he was conferred the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland and won the first prize of the...

February 22: 1945. The USSR Council of People’s Commissars decided to build a subway in Kyiv (the first stage was commissioned in 1960). 1994. A Ukrainian diplomatic representation was officially...

Those who have known him a long time often recall (proudly or venomously): “I knew him when he was still...” perhaps as a kind of compensation. The “Internationale” has a line, “We have been naught,...

An important event took part in Ukrainian religious life last year, yet it was not accorded proper media attention. A book was published called Signs of the Times (Znaky Chasu). It is the first...

The reforms proclaimed by the executive will be ineffective unless we have the eternally sought middle class. Without it no one can guarantee there will be no turning back to the recent past, just as...

To paraphrase the headline, there is no serious investment because the tourists do not come. The city mayor’s counselor Yaroslav Kozak is convinced it is time to break this vicious circle: Lviv has...

On February 13 the House of Cinematographers in Kyiv hosted the premiere of Oles Sanin’s documentary Hrikh (Sin). Both the eloquent title and theme (“This film is my final exam before Leonid Osyka,...

Acting President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. has signed a decree restoring the so-called special departments (counterintelligence cells — Ed.) in the army. In Soviet times, the...

On February 16 Verkhovna Rada successfully passed the first stage of the would-be “end of the parliamentary world” as SPU leader Oleksandr Moroz had predicted the date would mark the Ukrainian...

There is an opinion that the problem of symbols is artificial and out of place, that it is not the time to argue about symbols when this country is in crisis and we have seek compromises here, too. I...

The Gypsy Roots at the Turn of the Century international festival ended in Moscow after featuring professional performers from 16 countries. Ukraine was represented by a group from Ihor Krykunov’s...

Serhiy MAKEYEV, Ph.D. (Sociology), Institute of Sociology, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences Obviously, Viktor Yushchenko’s Cabinet has rejected some of the previous government’s “...

Disposal of household wastes have long become a real headache for Dnipropetrovsk’s public utilities and authorities. The Dniprokomuntrans enterprise, which has traditionally dealt with this, has...

LONDON: New management usually signals a new beginning. For the International Monetary Fund, however, the opposite is needed. Michel Camdessus’ successor as IMF managing director should be charged...