№8, (2008)

Party members are fleeing the Our Ukraine ship. As reported earlier, six people have quit the ranks of the NU-NS (Our Ukraine/People’s Self-Defense) on the heels of Viktor Baloha. This is probably...

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, the civic organization Donetsk Memorial, and the Penitentiary Society of Ukraine have forwarded a letter to...

Last year Liudmyla Petrykivska, a native of Ukraine, won the silver medal in the international literary competition The Golden Pen of Rus’. Petrykivska, a writer and journalist who lives in Germany,...

Yevhen Marchuk, Ukraine’s former defense minister and ex-secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, links the gas conflict with Russia to Ukraine’s intention to join NATO’s Membership...

The problem of visas for Ukrainians and the lineups on the Ukrainian-Polish border, which appeared after Poland joined the Schengen zone, was felt in Ukrainian-Polish relations last year. January’s...

“We greeted Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organization with great enthusiasm. It is a very good stimulant,” said Volodymyr Volkov, head of the State Fisheries Committee of Ukraine. According...

March 4 is the birthday of Volodymyr Ivasiuk, one of the most talented figures in 20th-century Ukrainian music. His peers — Mykola Mozhovy, Ihor Poklad, Oleksandr Zlotnyk, Hennadii Tatarchenko, and...

Inflation and privatization, portfolio distribution and gas-supply patterns are just some of the questions for which President Viktor Yushchenko has taken Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to task....

A fashion week will be held for the first time in Lviv. According to the organizers, this event will be held in an international format and will include well-known designers from Eastern and Southern...

We have inherited a single planet. But what have we made of it? The Earth is today an endangered heritage, and the species itself is at risk. UNESCO has just published Making Peace with the Earth (...

Education is a constant process. As life changes and issues challenges, science makes tremendous strides, and the younger generation demands improved teaching methods, the entire state education...

On Feb. 29 the National Opera of Ukraine hosted a concert commemorating Ukraine’s prominent conductor Stefan Turchak (1938-1988), who would have been 70 years old on Feb. 28 if a serious illness had...

March 4 1919: The Council of People’s Ministers (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR issues a decree abolishing school fees. 1989: Kyiv hosts the Republican Founding Conference of Memorial, Ukraine’s...

As a geomorphic form of relief, the plateau-like Podolian Upland extends from northwestern to southeastern Ukraine. Stretching in the same direction are the ridges of the Ukrainian Carpathians, the...

Ukraine would like to see two basic things in the new enhanced agreement between Ukraine and the EU: political association and economic integration, President Viktor Yushchenko told the Europe-...