№7, (2003)

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...

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...

February 25: 1918. The Small Rada passed the law On Implementing the New [Gregorian] Calendar and Middle European Time in UNR. The trident was approved as the UNR state emblem. 1992. President of...

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...

I have been keeping in contact with representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora for the past 15 years. The initial feeling of detachment has long since disappeared. We correspond and meet every now and...

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...

According to results from a poll conducted among Ukrainians aged 10 to 22, 40% of teenagers aged 10 to 14 have tried to smoke at least once. The poll was conducted by the Ukrainian Institute for...

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...

Last weekend, the interministerial commission for a complex solution to the Chornobyl problem, headed by the fuel-and-energy Vice Premier, Vitaly Haiduk, held a meeting at the nuclear power station,...