№8, (2007)

Early in the morning the kitchen of Kyiv’s Social Care House is already bustling with activity. Cooks are preparing food, making tea, and slicing bread. Meanwhile, warm clothing — felt boots and...

This is the sixth season that young Ukrainian musicians are being introduced to Kyiv audiences in the improvised hall of St. Andrew’s Church. Music lovers remember the concert called Pearls of...

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...

Over the past several years the number of marriages has increased in the Donbas. Whereas slightly more than 25,000 marriages were registered in 2004, almost 33,000 took place in 2006. Meanwhile,...

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...

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...

The outstanding Ukrainian playwright Ivan Kocherha (1881-1952) was an uncommon artist. According to a legend (or perhaps a true story?) the writer kept a skull, ancient medieval manuscripts, an hour-...

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’...

National Box Promotion’s star Yurii Nuzhnenko has defended his WBA Intercontinental Champion’s title in the second middleweight division for the second time, defeating Uzbekistan’s Farkhad Bakirov....

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...

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...

The contemporary bandurists Taras Sylenko, Vasyl Lytvyn, Taras Kompanychenko, Yaroslav Chornohuz, and Mykola Lytvyn entertained the guests who gathered at the Teachers’ House in Kyiv. Who was...

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...

“The Ethno-Disco evenings are becoming famous near and far,” says Oleh Skrypka, the leader of the rock group Vopli Vidopliasova (VV). His latest ethno-disco evening took place at the Kyiv art gallery...

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...