№66, (2010)

Ukrainians and Western experts alike have been wondering about the so-called non-alignment status adopted by the incumbent Ukrainian government. The authorities emphasize that this decision has...

Cuba, the second-last Leninist-Stalinist socialist paradise on earth, is in its death throes, with the all but dead economy desperately in need of modernization. This is something even the Castro...

Last Sunday Ukrainians had to cast their ballots again, during a repeat local election campaign. As resolved by the Central Election Committee, such repeat elections were held in 759 electoral...

On November 16, Viktor Yanukovych dismissed the elusive Leonid Chernovetsky from the post of the head of Kyiv Municipal State Administration and appointed the mayor in all but name Oleksandr Popov...

1918: In the Battle of Motovylivka, the Sich Riflemen of the Directorate of the Ukrainian National Republic defeat the Hetman’s troops. 1935: Warsaw witnesses a trial over OUN members charged with...

I first heard about Fethullah Gulen during last year’s Ukraine-Turkey symposium on “Integration problems of scientific, educational and intellectual potential in the process of state...

Too rarely do famous directors come to Kyiv. The last time the Vilnius Theater Meno Fortas came to our capital was over five years ago (with Hamlet and Othello). This time the Lithuanians are...

One of the greatest values and shrines of our nation could find itself out in the street. The Scythian Pectoral, which is considered a masterpiece of jewelry art of global significance, and is...

WARSAW – Remember the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), aimed at enshrining “commonly-shared values” between Russia and the European Community? Signed in 1994 during...

A group of Carpathian artists — soloists of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Philharmonic Society, the Chamber Orchestra “Harmonia Nobile,” and amateur performers — visited the...

  History has several times substantially touched the little town of Kamianka, with its population of 15,000 people. Monuments to Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Alexander Pushkin and the Decembrists...

The ceremony of the “Lion City’s” acceptance to the international association took place during the opening of the 2nd Tourist conference “Win with the Lion!” The...

The honoring of the Holodomor victims on the national level began in 2008 with the decrees of the then President Viktor Yushchenko. In fact, a “silent” memory of their kindred, starved...

Last week brought yet another decision of the European Parliament to postpone the vote on the resolution on Ukraine. The first attempt had been made during the October plenary session in Strasbourg....

Khrushchevka is the popular name for a five-story building with several entrances and without an elevator or garbage chute; as a rule, each floor contains four flats. In the 1960s, the widespread...