№6, (2003)

Creative people always find a special way to celebrate their birthday. They organize exhibitions, soirees, or presentations. For eight years in a row three Kyiv-based artists, Oksana Kirpenko, Oksana...

Violence is always preceded by massive lies or a cynical concealment of truth. Stalin’s regime desperately tried to hide its atrocities from the rest of the world — primarily the artificial famine...

The Ministry of Economy has published on its Web site a joint statement by the US and Ukrainian governments signed in Washington at the end of January. On behalf of Ukraine, the document was signed...

The week before last, Ukrhazvydobuvannia [Ukrainian Gas Extraction], a subsidiary of the Naftohaz Ukrayiny Inc., emerged for the first time as quite a powerful vertically- integrated facility...

The Rev. Andriy has wed three couples at a regional hospice for terminally ill since it opened in Lutsk eight months ago. All of them were “about my mother’s age,” says Rev. Andriy. They lived...

The State Committee for Religion announced official statistics on religious communities in Ukraine on January 1, 2003. At a news conference, SCR Chairman Viktor Bondarenko said that there is a steady...

Ukraine’s ranking officials met with Luca Barbone, World Bank Country Director for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, and discussed prospects for bilateral cooperation. This meeting took place after the...

The Government Day in parliament on February 11 was dedicated to the problems of the physically challenged and preceded a rather emotional overture. A group of people with special needs, looking into...

In Poland, supposedly a Catholic country, there is a radio program and daily newspaper owned by Radio Maria , both public voices of a charismatic, xenophobic, and fundamentalist priest who loathes...

One of the brightest figures in our early-17th-century history was Melety Smotrytsky, a talented writer, a language scholar, an erudite, a highly educated European-minded individual. He was deeply...

The French and German Embassies in Ukraine invited the Kyivans to a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Elysian Treaty. The history of relations between Germany and France in the 19th and...

Soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine Iryna Semenenko is well known to Kyiv audiences. She graduated from vocal department of the Kyiv Gliyer Music College (Nina Akopova’s class) and National...

Formerly, this village was the center of Russian Old Believers. Today, it is home to no more than 150 villagers. They cherish their traditions and language, but, as they like to joke, their “youngest...

The contest had a difficult start, and not only due to financial difficulties. The issue of cost is a common problem for most contests. The shortcomings of national legislation have made sponsorship...

Victoria Lukyanets, celebrated operatic prima donna, has been performing on key theatrical stages the world over for some years now. Nevertheless, the singer always tries to find a couple of days to...