№70, (2010)

  Puppeteers from Rivne win first prize   The Rivne Puppet Theater’s play Bu-ra-ti-no took the first place at the Puppet Rainbow Festival. Created in a musical format and...

December 1 marks the 19th anniversary since the All-Ukrainian referendum, in which over 90 percent of Ukrainians supported the Act of Declaration of Independence. Majorities in all regions of...

The case of the execution of Polish officers and intelligentsia in Katyn has once again moved forward. This time the Russian State Duma adopted the statement “On the Katyn Tragedy and its...

Deputy Prime Minister Serhii Tihipko, in charge of economic reforms ex officio, has aroused scathing criticism by saying that “you should not listen to ordinary people, as far as economic reforms are...

President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine finally took over the process of drawing up and adopting the Tax Code on November 30, when he vetoed the bill passed by the Ver-khovna Rada, thus meeting one of...

Foreigners are involved in many business, scientific, and social projects in Ukraine. These foreigners are, of course, interested in studying Ukrainian, but cannot find any textbooks to do so. This...

The National Museum of Ukrainian Literature is currently hosting an exhibit of photographs taken in Ukraine last year. It comprises 90 works by 58 authors. A jury decided which photos should be shown...

1015: Yaroslav the Wise becomes Grand Prince of Kyiv. 1864: Russia’s first district credit bank is founded in Kherson. 1917: An emergency session of the Small Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic...

Several days before the begining of the Memorial Week in Ukraine the Yerevan-based publishing house Ayir published Stanislav Kulchytsky’s book Why Did He Destroy Us? in Armenian translation....

There is a Cablegate in the making following WikiLeaks’ publication on November 28 of what The New York Times describes as a “cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic...

The Solovianenko National Opera and Ballet Theater of Donetsk started working on a ballet based on Lesia Ukrainka’s title drama in verse in June this year. The choreographer and stage...

YEREVAN – Summit season is upon us. Following the G-20 meetings in Seoul and the NATO summit in Portugal, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will hold its first summit in...

The renovation of the Koziatyn railway station, a 19th century architectural monument, has finally started. The building, one of the finest railway structures of the Russian Empire, was built in 1888...

While answering the questions of the US Atlantic Council the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych said: “Not only Ukrainian and Russian are spoken in Ukraine. Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian...

Just several years ago, the Ukrainian Danube region was among the country’s most economically depressed areas. All the entities associated with shipping on the Danube, such as ports and ship-...