№6, (2004)

It is becoming clear after the latest statements and proposals made during and after the Munich Conference on Security that the NATO summit in Istanbul will have every chance to be as historic as the...

Kamyanets-Podilsky is an ancient city by the River Smotrych (an estuary of the Dniester). It has long attracted archaeologists, historians, literati, and filmmakers. In the fall of 2003, it was...

Once you find yourself in the Carpathian Mountains, something happens inside, you begin to marvel at the beauty of life, the land, love...Is it the intoxicatingly clear air with the pungent pine...

One fact from the history of twentieth century Ukrainian literature is the Ukrainian monthly journal, Arka [The Arch], specializing in literature, art, and criticism, published in Munich, from July...

Eimuntas Nekrosius’s production of Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard is something one finds difficult to watch but fascinated nevertheless. On the face of it, what could be simpler than to stage a play that...

When life flies at a maddening pace and time is not on our side, news is what little we manage to watch, dozing off twenty minutes into a late-night movie. Even if you want to watch an interesting...

“I was shadowed by death. It was wearing yellow shoes, a light chocolate suit, and had the colorless face of a gangster.”Volodymyr Sosiura Love for one’s native land under the rule of a despotic...

Last Monday the State Tax Administration gave its response to the president’s statements about corruption flourishing in our country. In the words of head of the State Tax Administration (STA) tax...

Formerly, NBU Governor Serhiy Tihipko expressed his confidence that by the end of 2004 the euro-dollar exchange rate will begin to decline. Tihipko is convinced that even though the euro is...

The currency market is showing signs of a strengthening hryvnia. Judging from the latest data, is this a steady trend or mere fluctuation of the hryvnia exchange rate? There is no simple answer. In...

The current situation, in which no one is sure about Ukraine’s further official course, is already producing markedly dangerous phenomena threatening our national sovereignty and territorial...

Now that the problem of the political reform’s key points, as stipulated by bill No. 4105, has in fact been solved, Ukrainian politicians and experts are focusing their attention on the...

On the eve of the fifteenth anniversary of withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan Ukraine’s leaders laid flowers on the memorial to Ukrainians who perished in the Afghan War. The ceremony...

The Livadiya Palace in Yalta, which hosted the 1945 Yalta Conference of the Big Three, has opened a memorial room dedicated to Sir Winston Churchill, the great Prime Minister of Great Britain and...

On Friday the NATO delegation headed by Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Colonel Harald Kujat completed its visit to Kyiv. The Brussels guests focused their attention on Kyiv’s attainments in...