№9, (2008)

On the eve of the anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth, when so many grandiloquent words were spoken, we were curious, as always, about how people live in the poet’s native places. We put this...

In 1957 Vsevolod Holub’s book Konspektyvnyi narys istorii KP(b)U (Concise History of the CP(B)U) was published in Munich. Commenting on the June 1953 plenum of the CC CP(B)U, when...

The Grand Salon of Sculpture 2008 opened at Kyiv’s Ukrainian Home as part of the project Kyiv Art. This is one of those cases where annotations can be fully trusted. The organizers are...

Shevchenko prizes were ceremoniously presented to the laureates and a soiree held in commemoration of the poet’s 194th anniversary. Among these year’s laureates are: stage director Oleksandr Dzekun...

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven PIFER, who is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, often visits Ukraine. He recently attended the three-day forum “Ukraine-...

Achieving equality between men and women is more than an end in itself. It is a compulsory prerequisite for liquidating poverty, securing stable progress, and building a civil society. This is...

March 12 1923: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR sends a note of protest to the governments of Great Britain, Italy, and France in connection with the annexation of Eastern...

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko believes that women began to enter politics because governments were unable to carry out their duty of protecting their people from dangers and injustice. She made...

On March 7 a roundtable on Ukraine’s demographic development took place in Kyiv. During the conference two analytical reports were presented under the same title: “Ukraine’s Potential and Its...

Relations between Kazakhstan and Ukraine are developing dynamically in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and trust. Proof of this is the growing bilateral and multilateral contacts at various...

The International Day of Francophonie is traditionally marked on March 20. This day to celebrate the French language is a high-profile cultural event for the many members and observer states of the...

A few days ago the Ye Bookstore launched an anthology edited by the philologist Vira Aheieva, a well-known Ukrainian literary scholar and critic. The book contains the finest examples of 20th-century...

For the benefit of those who don’t waste their Friday nights watching meaningless verbal exchanges (for some unknown reason called political debates) among a limited number of public figures on the...

An important event took place recently at the Ternopil Oblast Regional History Museum. Vira Stetsko, a well-known art specialist and author of more than 200 articles and studies on Baroque sculpture...

Ukrainian farmers will be the first to feel the consequences of WTO membership, Ivan Tomych, president of the Association of Farmers and Private Landowners of Ukraine, told journalists. He noted that...