№60, (2010)

Quite recently the fifth award “Woman of the Third Millennium” was bestowed upon Ukraine’s most successful ladies. The claimants contested the prize in three nominations, “...

On October 23 eight years will have passed since The Day when a group of Chechen terrorists took over 800 spectators and actors hostage at the Theater Center at Dubrovka in Moscow. The attack began...

The collection of the Pottery Library of Ukraine of the National Ukrainian Pottery Museum-Preserve in Opishne (Poltava oblast), specialized in Ukrainian and world pottery, was enlarged thanks to...

Serhii Vasylkivsky is known as the poet of Ukrainian painting. The famous Kharkiv-based writer, historian, composer, social and political activist Hnat Khotkevych (one of those shot in the 1930s)...

The head of the Russian government Vladimir Putin is a frequent guest in Ukraine. But are Ukrainians pleased with his last visit? There is no definite answer to that question, because there are...

In the first nine months of 2010, according to the State Tax Administration, the Ukrainian budget received 9.5 billion hryvnias from tobacco excise duties. This is 3.3 billion more than in the same...

There is no objective criticism, nor is there objective art, and all those who boast that they put something different into their work, deceive themselves with the most deceitful of philosophies...

President Ilham Aliyev of the Republic of Azerbaijan is paying an official visit to Ukraine, during which the presidents of both countries are meeting for the second time. Prior to his visit,...

The Music of All Continents premier concert took place in the National Opera of Ukraine on the celebratory occasion. The author and art director of the project was the conductor Herman Makarenko...

The upcoming local elections will be memorable for a number of reasons. One of them is the strong presence of the clergy among the contestants. Despite the hierarchs’ interdictions, party rosters...

Ukrainians who buy a souvenir or a painting by a famous artist during a trip abroad should be ready to face problems at the state boarder. They will have to fill in a series of documents to import...

1919: US Congress passes the Volstead Act banning the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. 1920: The Red Army’s Southern Front launches a counteroffensive, clearing Taurica [Crimea] of...

The Greek Catholic clergy had not been authorized for a long time to take part in elections — already back in 2006 the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) resolved to forbid priests...

The Russian project polit.ru, which began six years ago and focuses on the organization of public lectures of prominent scholars, entrepreneurs and politicians, took deep roots in Ukraine, in the...

The board of directors of the League of Historical Cities decided to accept the city of Chernivtsi to its midst during a meeting in the Japanese city of Nara, reported Ukrinform. “The League of...