№7, (2008)

President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine met with Alexei II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The head of the Ukrainian state was accompanied by Ukraine’s...

The second Carnivalia masquerade ball was held in the columned hall of Kyiv City Hall. It was organized by the Art Treasury International Charitable Foundation, whose president is Tetiana Logush....

On International Childhood Cancer Day there were so many people waiting to donate blood at the donor center of the Kyiv Regional Oncological Dispensary that they had to stand in line. Kyiv resident...

Ukraine needs a spent nuclear fuel storage facility that would be centrally controlled. It costs too much to reprocess spent fuel in Russia and, at any rate, Ukraine would eventually have to take it...

The latest research of the World Health Organization (WTO) indicates that young Ukrainians rank first in the world in terms of alcohol consumption. The statistics of Ukraine’s Ministry of Health (MOZ...

It was no accident that Mykhailo Starytsky chose to write about Ivan Mazepa: with his dilogy Molodost Mazepy (Mazepa’s Youth), and Ruina (The Ruin) he was continuing his series of historical...

What was actually the subject of the gas negotiations led by Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Moscow and what are their outcomes? This is the question that is being asked even by those...

What can be done to keep children out of prisons, so-called correctional labor facilities? It is an open secret that inmates are not “corrected” there. Judicial statistics point to a vicious circle...

Feb. 26 1878: The trial of a group of noted Galician public figures, among them Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Pavlyk, and Ostap Terletsky, begins in Lviv. 1993: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the...

The members of the organizing committee of Ukrainian Fashion Week, which will take place on March 11-19, 2008, are convinced that fashion is too broad a phenomenon to dictate only wardrobe rules. At...

The EU’s special representative for Moldova, Kalman Mizsei, has been representing the interests of Brussels in the Transdnistrian settlement process. He is facing the difficult task of promoting a...

Last Tuesday, Feb. 19, Kyiv Information Day was filled with politics and debates about one of our “eternal and insoluble” social topics — the place of religion in Ukraine’s schools. For more than 10...

Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of Regions, told the BBC on Feb. 22 that a one- vote parliamentary majority won’t work in the Verkhovna Rada, and the only way out of the current situation...

The Subcarpathian town of Bolekhiv was once known as the “Ruthenian Athens.” Located in the scenic Carpathian foothills, it attracted a number of noted personalities not only because here they...

It appears that Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine succeeded in melting the ice in the complicated relations between Ukraine and Russia. Despite negative expectations, she managed to start a...