№6, (2010)

As long ago as last summer the Verkhovna Rada began to study the question of dual citizenship which has in fact been practiced in Ukraine for years, although the Constitution recognizes single...

Courage has two chief manifestations: disregard for death and disregard for pain.CiceroDeprived of freedom and sense in living, a man is left with a choice. He can either be brave and disregard death...

1648: An uprising of Zaporozhian Cossacks triggers the Ukrainian People’s Liberation War led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the Polish nobility. 1878: An open trial (“Trial of the 193”) ends in Saint...

Everything new is well-forgotten old. And the wind returneth again to its circuits. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce… These and other aphorisms reflect a phenomenon common to...

There are basically two ways of thinking in the approach to Ukraine, especially to Kyiv’s European aspirations, in both Brussels and Warsaw. The first of them, which may be called “small-steps...

In mature democracies it is quite common to hold a debate between the two candidates in the course of a second round of the presidential elections. At the time of the first round, the differences...

Volyn National Lesia Ukrainka University restored a tradition and held the second Viennese Ball aimed at raising funds to build the university’s temple of St. Sophia the Divine Wisdom. The university...

The launch of Olha Petrova’s titanic work Commedia by Dante Alighieri. Artistic commentary of the 14-20th centuries is a noteworthy event in Ukrainian cultural life, according to critics. The book...

Speaking about the situation of Ukraine’s state security, Yurii Shcherbak (The Day No. 2, Thursday, 21 January 2010) said that “Ukraine should do everything to get stronger and obtain legally binding...

Continued from previous issue There is yet another reason against comparing the Holodomor with the Holocaust. Making any comparison is linked to identification. By comparing the Holodomor with...

The band gathered two full houses in Surgut, Russia’s oil capital, West Siberian largest city with the Far-North-like climate. This trip to Siberia made the musicians recall their personal discovery...

Chirac turns down Putin’s offerFrench ex-president Jacques Chirac rejected Vladimir Putin’s proposal to head South Stream AG. This was reported by the weekly publication Le Nouvel Observateur, using...

BERLIN – Revolutions, it is said, almost always devour their children. Obviously, this is also true for the “color revolutions” – first in Georgia, and now in Ukraine, where President Viktor...

According to the rating of the decade’s main scientific discoveries, the first place is given to the proofs demonstrating that glaciers are indeed melting at an accelerated pace: first of all,...

There is hardly another famous historical figure in Ukraine who would be as divisive for the Ukrainian society and provoke such hatred or adoration as Stepan Bandera. The attitude to this figure...