№75, (2011)

This is the largest project by the Kyiv department of the National Artists Association of Ukraine. Throughout its five-year-long history it has developed into a tradition. The masterminds explained...

Sculpture of the composer has been made of bronze, while the pedestal and paving are granite. The monument is two and a half meters tall and stands on Shevchenko Avenue. The pro-ject has been...

The Ukrainian parliament re­gis­tered the bill “On Principles of the State Language Policy” at the end of last August. The law was drawn up by the Party of Regions MPs Serhii Kivalov and Vadym...

Natalia VOROZHBYT is a Kyiv-based playwright and scenarist. She is one of the leaders of the “new dramaturgy.” The mass audien­ce knows her as an author of the TV series School. In...

The National Museum-cum-Pre­serve “1943 Battle of Kyiv,” in the presidential village of Novi Petrivtsi near Kyiv, is now hosting a Museum of the Poster. The first exhibit displays World War II items...

Kyivites got to see The Epistle series of paintings. It is a message of sorts from Taras Shevchenko that the artist has managed to discern in the poet’s works and offered to the future generations....

The Russian authorities have not only come around after the shock in Bolotnaya Square but also have assumed the propagandist offensive, the more that they have now the official candidate for pre­si­...

Ivano-Frankivsk lampposts are studded with big stickers reading “I also exterminated Ukrainians. Build me a monument too.” The dictators Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are shown standing side by side...

Songs and children’s laughter can be heard since the early morning in Tytar’s estate next to Stavropegion Church founded in the name of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin. These kids came to visit...

The EU-Ukraine summit has left many questions unanswered. Although the guests from Europe were markedly courteous and did their best to show just how happy they were to be present there, not a single...

Yulia SEREDA holds a Ph.D. in sociology and works as a researcher for the department of monitoring research of social and economic transformations at the Institute of Economics and Prognostication,...

As deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs, Taras Chornovil is entitled to a little, but very cozy office with an unusual round window, like a ship’s.“This building has only...

The whole world spoke about the cardinal Yosyp Slipy, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic church (1944-84) even before the Soviet Union heard about Gorbachov’s perestroika. The American president...

1917: Soviet rule is established in Kharkiv. 1920: The Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets is called to order; it adopts the GOELRO Russian RSFSR Electrification Plan. 1941: An underground...

President Yanukovych’s recent working visit to Moscow to attend a jubilee CIS summit also included a private meeting with the Russian President, Dmitry Medve­dev. There were Ukrainian...