№63, (2015)

Several hearings in the trial of Oleksii Pukach, the main perpetrator of the crimes tried in the notorious Gongadze-Podolsky case, were held on October 26-30. One must pay attention to them, for the...

The final night of the 45th Molodist was quite well-directed (which was probably caused in part by a lower level of official presence compared to the opening), beginning with a potpourri of silent...

Myroslav MARYNOVYCH, human rights activist, journalist, religious studies scholar, founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group:“Both alternatives have something wrong in them. I am not a...

In the maelstrom of political tensions, many Ukrainians inevitably find themselves compelled to forget the meaning and lessons of instructive events that happened in the not too distant past (one can...

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA)’s official Vasyl Smyk tried to serve summonses for questioning on some MPs from the Opposition Bloc at a meeting of the parliament’s council of...

In May 2014, soon after Russia had launched an open aggression against Ukraine, President Putin signed a Russian State Duma-passed law, which he said was aimed against the falsification of history....

On October 8, 2015, the Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian Russian-speaking author. The grounds for choice were worded concisely and exhaustively: “for...

Only a lazy one will not recall that it is written “Artist by the grace of God” on Vladyslav Shereshevsky’s calling card. An egoistic, brazen, and self-confident claim, but, on the...

The concert’s venue was the Master Class cultural and educational center. The Lyre and Sword cycle was performed by members of the recently-formed band Weber Ensemble Kyiv, demonstrating high...

This fall, Berdiansk has been receiving mail from Munich, was discussed at a jazz festival in Vilnius, its photos have been looked at in Minsk, and Lviv musicians repair fiddlesticks and send them to...

A white Angel, about the size of a ten-year-old boy, looks over Kyiv, with his feet playfully dangling from the balcony of the Taras Shevchenko National Museum. This interesting piece of art, a...

The focus of this year is not so much an emotional component (although it remains a thing one can hardly do without), but the understanding of the events Ukraine is going through. This year’s...

The “Summer” project, according to the artist, is a diary of events, which did not happen. But the imagery is very clear. The art depicts random fragments of life – a dog looking...

The Kherson Oblast Shovkunenko Art Museum is displaying about 40 pictures of the People’s Painter of Ukraine Anatolii Melnyk. This is the first time he exhibits his works in Kherson. Among them...