№8, (2007)

Environmental problems are a constant worry for biologists, ecologists, and physicians. Ukraine’s leading experts agree that air, water, and ground pollution pose the greatest threat to humans. Other...

Such world-scale catastrophes as the Ukrainian Holodomor of 1932-33 will never be perceived by society as a theoretical academic issue, a problem of purely scholarly importance. The tragedy of the...

Almost two years ago Ukraine made a clear-cut statement that it was planning to enter the European educational space. By signing the Bologna Declaration, official Kyiv undertook to modernize higher...

Viktoria Lukianets, Valentyn Pyvovarov, Olha Mykytenko, Volodymyr Kuzmenko, and Marian Talaba are stars that rarely grace the stage of the National Opera of Ukraine. They may be described as Ukraine’...

The Slovakian Republic used to have rather cold relations with NATO and the EU. However, the Slovakian government managed to convince the population in the rationality of the country’s entry into the...

James MacDougall, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Eurasia, is responsible for questions concerning military-political cooperation with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). He is...

March 6 1939: A monument to the Great Kobzar is unveiled in Kyiv in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth. March 7 1921: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of...

People in Donetsk have finally been told what the European Union is and what benefit Ukraine can derive from it. Last week Donetsk Oblast was the venue of what may be called the unscheduled “days of...

There are many dramatic and bloody pages in the history of the Ukrainian people. But the most tragic ones are undoubtedly those connected with the repressive policy of Soviet totalitarianism in the...

On March 1 Ukraine House saw the opening of the Grand Salon of Sculpture 2007. The organizers exhibited over 300 works of Ukrainian masters of different generations, artistic styles, and trends in an...

Yevhen MARCHUK, former prime minister of Ukraine and ex-secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, was recently interviewed by Radio Liberty (www.radiosvoboda.ua) Plans by the Czech...

The Committee for Monitoring Press Freedom in the Crimea unveiled the 2006 issue of the White Book of Crimean Journalism, which was published with the assistance of the International Renaissance...

Ukraine’s prospects for EU membership and effective reforms were the top issues on the agenda meetings held between the British Minister for Europe, Jeff Hunn, high-ranking Ukrainian officials in...

By Dmytro DESIATERYK, The Day The art of modern dance is a real “terra incognita” for the average Ukrainian spectator. No modern dance festivals are held in Ukraine, and foreign touring companies...

Five thousand tons of solid rocket fuel left over from the liquidation of SS-24 Soviet strategic missiles have been stored at the defense enterprises in Pavlohrad for a number of years. Needless to...