№7, (2003)

February 20 saw, if not a start, then, a preparation for the start of a new direction in Ukraine’s development. A conference in Kyiv aimed on establishing an “innovation economy model” began with the...

The Children’s Art Academy in Obolon is hosting a one-man show to present paintings and drawings by young Kyiv artist Dmytro Filatov. He started with refined and penetrating variations on the theme...

At the February 12 — 14 session of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris everything turned out well for the Ukrainian delegation. FATF experts did justice to money laundering legislation...

The spread of AIDS in the Zhytomyr oblast is a rising threat and doctors’ efforts alone are not enough to overcome it. Deputy head of the oblast state administration, Ihor Rafalsky (who is also...

Last week, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine made a decision to send a detached chemical, biological, and radiological warfare battalion to the Persian Gulf and Middle East area to...

The upcoming presidential elections further aggravate the complicated problem of political reform. If the first steps toward the President-proposed changes are not taken before the Central Electoral...

The report that Washington is allegedly shelving the Kolchuga affair caused an almost total furor. First, they put this country to worldwide shame and then suddenly shelve the matter! Without...

“At the glorious City of Kyiv... there stood an outpost manned by heroes. The outpost was under the command of Ilya Murometz. His second in command was Dobrynia Nikitich, Jr., and Cossack Captain...

Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry noted a slight warming of relations between Ukraine and the US, Foreign Ministry Press Service Chief Oleksandr Horkov told the February 19 briefing. A fortnight...

In Poland, supposedly a Catholic country, there is a radio program and daily newspaper owned by Radio Maria , both public voices of a charismatic, xenophobic, and fundamentalist priest who loathes...

The task force in Geneva gathered for the tenth meeting yesterday to study Ukraine’s membership of the World Trade Organization. Economy and European Integration Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky, head...

On February 13, at a meeting between presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Aleksander Kwasniewsky of Poland, an agreement was signed, On Preparing Measures to Appropriately Commemorate the Victims...

In the near future, the Russian ruble could be used as a unified payment means in the Euro-Asian Economic Commonwealth. So remarked Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov in his February 19th speech...

The Kharkiv-based AKTA publishers’ presentation of The Historical Phonology of the Ukrainian Language , by Yury Sheveliov, attracted a large audience of academics. This was a major event — and not...

It has already become a tradition for journalists to seek the opinion of independent Ukraine’s first President Leonid Kravchuk on any ripple in Ukrainian politics. Not only because he is both a...