№6, (2006)

February is considered the most depressing month of the year, although the season of depression lasts much longer, from fall until early spring. In fact, our contemporary life is considered a time of...

Last Sunday the National Opera of Ukraine hosted a high-profile concert featuring Ukrainian vocalists, ballet dancers, and musicians who have made successful careers abroad. Opening the concert...

European integration has been a priority direction of the Ukrainian leadership’s foreign policy for more than a year. But many obstacles have been cropping up on this road. When Leonid Kuchma was...

On Feb. 22 the Ivan Bohun Military Lyceum of Kyiv hosted a major cultural event: the popular Ukrainian band Vopli Vidopliasova, VV for short, presented its musical video Kateryna ,...

Recently I went to a market in Kyiv to find out what average people, buyers and sellers, think about inflation and whether it really makes a hole in their pockets, as experts and politicians claim....

February 28, 1654. Polish King Jan II Kaziemerz issued a universal calling the Zaporozhzhian Army to remain loyal to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1920. The commander of the Southwest Front...

The National Opera has a very rich repertoire. On Jan. 27 the theater premiered Myroslav Skoryk’s opera Moses and is now inviting audiences to the premiere of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro on March...

Last Friday signaled the end of an era in the life of Ukrainian Civil Defense military rescuers: the central emergencies and rescue unit of the Civil Protection Service of Ukraine’s Ministry for...

The cost of entry visas for foreigners traveling to EU member states is to double, according to a decision recently approved by justice and interior ministers of the 25 EU member states. The increase...

Last week there was a flurry of unexpected statements by EU officials with regard to Ukraine. First, the European Commission’s vice-president Gunther Verheugen was quoted as saying that the post-...

“More than half of this battle is taking place on the battlefield of the media, [for] we are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of [Muslims].” The speaker was not some public...

On Feb. 23, the US Embassy in Ukraine was picketed as part of the protest action “Say NE TAK!” against the nuclear waste dump in Kyiv oblast. A message addressed to US Ambassador John Herbst,...

The favorite expression of any informed participant in the stock market can be phrased as follows: normal work in this sphere requires silence. However, the government’s initiatives aimed at bringing...

Volodymyr Katsan is a Kyivan who grew up in an urban, Russian-speaking environment, but his inspiring story about his Ukrainian music projects was a pleasant surprise. So far he has released 30 CDs...

The last bastion has fallen on the road to Ukraine’s recognition as a market economy. Although the United States issued this recognition on Friday, Feb. 17, the European Union recognized Ukraine as a...