№7, (2003)

Lomivka, the native village of the classicist of Ukrainian literature, Oles Honchar, whose 85th anniversary will soon be celebrated by UNESCO decision, can’t be found on a map. After World War II, it...

Obviously, quite a few Ukrainians now wish for at least a rudimentary knowledge of the Portuguese language and a little money to buy traditional Portuguese brief pants with gaiters, a vest, wide...

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...

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...

The weekend before last, an experiment on separate trash collecting techniques long promised by city authorities began for 3,500 Kyivans. Due to the financial support from the Danes, every...

It is an open secret that the sweeping investigation has been brought on primarily by cadre shakeups in the upper echelons of power. The key argument of medics administering treatment to the...

Last year, 60% of all payments to nonresidents for construction services were made via two undisclosed, average-sized Ukrainian banks. Notably, major cash flows were in the direction of the Baltic...

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...

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...

“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...

The sexual revolution, awaited with trepidation by Lviv’s bureaucrats in charge of culture and communications due to the coming arrival of Roman Viktiuk’s drama company to Ukraine, never took place....

Jazz is an elite art. Its language and expressive means are inherently sophisticated. It belongs to a serious creative realm. Here one finds masters whose skill satisfies the most demanding...

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...

The Artists’ House hosted a one-man show by renowned Kyiv artist Hennady Polevy, dedicated to his 75th anniversary. Sometimes it seems that this artist depicts not the real Earth, but some other...

After his graduation exam at the music college, people walking out of the audience exchanged meaningful glances. They all sensed that they had just witnessed a new phenomenon in the operatic world of...