Personality
07.05.2014 - 17:46
Information warfare
Ukrainian intellectuals, among them people with whom my husband, Dr. James Mace, God rest his soul, used to actively communicate, refer to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine as “...
18.03.2013 - 18:09
Nonconformity as inspiration
I can remember almost the whole class heaving a sigh of relief at a literature lesson when the subject was Lina Kostenko. We were glad to have an opportunity to be absorbed in special poetry and feel...
13.11.2012 - 00:00
VIVE LA FRANCE! "Long Live Ukraine!," proclaimed Charles de Gaulle during his forgotten visit to Kyiv
Love for France and interest in the mysterious figure of General de Gaulle stirred Kyiv. I remember thousands of people lining the streets in June day in 1966, anxiously waiting for the appearance...
13.11.2012 - 00:00
MEMORY CAN REVIVE EVEN THE STONES OF THE PAST There are times when it is better to be dead than alive or, better yet, unborn
Today, a significant portion of our population is nostalgic for “the paradise lost" and idealizes the Soviet way of life. This is not strange, for human memory has a physiological capacity to forget...
02.10.2012 - 00:00
“Future of the European project depends on relations between Kyiv and Berlin”
The present state of relations between Ukraine and Germany can only be described as chilly. This is indicated by the long absence of contacts between the capitals of these countries on the highest...
31.07.2012 - 00:00
The last moments with Bohdan Stupka, before Eternity takes over
The nation began to say goodbye to Bohdan Stupka late in the afternoon on July 23 at Askold’s Grave. A Requiem Mass lasted throughout the night at St. Nicholas’ Greek Catholic Church....
31.05.2012 - 00:00
Olena Malakova’s Bulgakoviana
Kyivite Olena Heorhiivna Malakova, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, has long been an admirer of Mikhail Bulgakov’s creative work, especially his novel Master and Margarita...
06.03.2012 - 00:00
His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk): The church must go beyond the boundaries of its temples
The primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) says that when he served in Lviv, he read our library project’s Wars and Peace and the publication of this book was in fact hitting...
21.02.2012 - 00:00
A man of lofty thought
James Mace turned 60 on February 18! We are not saying “would have turned” on purpose, for those who have passed away go on living if we remember them. Larysa Ivshyna characterized the...
27.12.2011 - 00:00
Ukraine is working on its fonts
Transformation of the aesthetic environment, of course, should become one of the key points of antitotalitarian program for Ukraine. It means not only transformation of obvious things like, let...
29.11.2011 - 00:00
On the labors of Hercules
Athlete Vitali Klitschko is a world-known celebrity. An absolute champion, he has achieved everything you can achieve in boxing. In his own words, the situation looks like the following: “...
17.11.2011 - 00:00
Holy Father Andrii VLASENKO: The ones that want to reach the depths of knowledge, will definitely become believers
Nowadays, as the poetess wrote once, “Insane pace. Time is not our property,” both psychologists and priests advise to stay alone every once in a while. That is when a...
17.11.2011 - 00:00
The way to stop being weak
The case of the 12-year-old chess player Oleksii Kotliar from the provincial town of Kreminna in Luhansk oblast seems to be unique. He managed to raise 44,000...
03.11.2011 - 00:00
She followed her beloved one from Khreshchatyk to taiga
I was covered with road dust after a many-kilometer march to Piria Rock as I reached Krasnoyarsk late in the evening, when an old acquaintance of mine and a fellow journalist Petro Dubynin said,...
09.08.2011 - 00:00
“You should walk across Ukraine”
Mykola came to the meeting with the students literally immediately after a journey. The interview took place on July 15, shortly after he had returned from the expedition across Canada called...