№73, (2011)

This year’s “Medvin – Book of the Year” has changed its residence (it moved from the Institute of Physical Education to “KyivExpoPlaza”) and its format (the book...

Museum development has become a very acute problem on the eve of Euro-2012. Are our museums prepared to deal with an influx of tourists and project a proper image of this country? Last week this...

Who could have predicted on December 15, 2000, when launching the project “Ukraine without Kuchma” (subsequently to evolve into the Mai-dan), that 11 years later Leonid Kuchma would...

Donetsk – Chornobyl disaster fighters’ tent in Donetsk was taken apart on Sunday night. While this was happening, five of the strikers were still inside the tent. The hunger strike, which started...

After a 12-hour court hearing held in a prison cell (tagged as a trial by a close-stool) nothing would seem to further amaze the Ukrainian public, not even the fact that Yulia Tymoshenko was...

1918: The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian (Hetman) State steps down in favor of the Directorate. 1918: The Directorate passes a bill banning sale, mortgage, and lease of land. 1932: The CC of...

A nature protection action “Make a feeder – save a bird’s life” is being held in Lviv at the initiative of the Department of Environmental Protection. A contest is announced...

The center’s director Ihor Antakhovych told our reporter that “it is mostly a seasonal phenomenon. Leopolitans and residents of Lviv region bring shot down and otherwise injured birds to us every...

From November 12 on, there are real (that is, ideologically-motivated) political prisoners in Ukraine. The Zhovtnevy District Court of Zaporizhia that had started proceedings in the Stalin monument...

The experience of “roundtables” as a means for the power and the opposition to compromise will be tried in Russia. The Russian public figures took this initiative on the Constitution...

The Nord Stream gas pipeline was launched as recently as on November 8, but it completely stopped pumping gas to Europe for a while on December 6. According to the official version, “it was a brief...

Presidential elections in Transtristria made a sudden turn. Still on Sunday the results of exit polls showed the victory of the current leader of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (...

At the end of last week, the Kyiv PinchukArtCentre announced the names of PinchukArtCentre 2011 Prize laureates, which were chosen by the honorary members of international jury that specially came to...

It seemed that all Berkut special police units from entire country were gathered outside the Court of Appeal’s premises in Solomianska Square on November 13. Tymoshenko’s supporters...

Court hearings are for Kuchma and his retinue a major whitewashing endeavor. The Pechersk [District] Court is actually hearing the complaint filed by the ex-president’s defense counsels...