№70, (2012)

Fifth session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) – COP5 took place in Seoul on November 12. Once in every two years delegates from 176...

Fall in America, just like the Ukrainian fall, paints the landscapes in all shades of red and yellow, leaving spots of late green in some places for contrast. However, there is one touch of the...

This year’s mushroom season turned out to be surprisingly long. November has come, but people are still bringing basketfuls of mushrooms from the woods, mostly bay boletes, slippery jacks and...

Nearly 80 artists from Ukraine and Poland took part in the biennial and about 300 art works were presented there. Watercolor is a quite difficult technique, which requires an artist to work with a...

This music competition was founded 50 years ago thanks to the initiative of the composers Andrii Shtoharenko and Levko Kolodub, singer Yelyzaveta Chavdar, piano players Yevhenii Rzhanov and...

This year’s anniversary has a bitter taste because Marko Brovun, the “knight of Ukrainian stage,” People’s Artist of Ukraine, winner of the Shevchenko Prize, wonderful...

A total of 20 participants present 16 different countries. Overall more than 4,000 applications for the award were submitted from 134 countries. Mykyta Kadan, winner of the past year’s...

Any human activity leads to a constant environmental contamination, pollution of the planet. This applies to the Black Sea as well, which environmentalists recognized as one of the most polluted seas...

This involves old scores to settle and recent animosity, national achievements and fixed ideas, a feeble inferiority complex and boundless ambition. Family affairs go public here. Mysteries unravel...

Street universities are rapidly becoming more popular in Ukraine. Active youth do not think that the knowledge provided by the official education is enough, so they look for additional sources of...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has passed Bill No. 9610 “On Agricultural Receipts” that allows farmers to replenish their working capital by bank loans secured by future crops. The bill, submitted by...

The formal start of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal construction in Odesa oblast, Ukraine, is slated for mid-November. The protracted talks will eventually launch yet another project,...

Public initiative “Save Mercury” was launched in May of 2011 – then Lviv residents began raising funds for the restoration of Mercury (figure on the front of the house on...

I drew a very important conclusion from my school draftsmanship lessons: front and top views do not show the full picture of an object – a side view and, in some cases, rear and bottom views are also...

An unheard-of rain was falling in Baturyn on November 13. Maybe, that was the way the nature was mourning over thousands who perished, as they were defending in an unequal fight not only themselves...