Kostiantyn Matviienko

Russian science fiction authors, when modeling their country’s near or distant future, will typically envisage Ukraine as a constituent part of Russia. This is the case particularly in those versions of the future where Russia returns to monarchy. It does not matter whether it is an...

Sixteen years ago, on Dec. 1, 1991, the citizens of Ukraine voted in favor of the Verkhovna Rada’s act “On the State Sovereignty of Ukraine” during a national referendum. The 1977 Constitution of the USSR envisaged the right of any of the 15 republics to secede freely. The proclamation of Ukraine’s...

Three years ago, in the late fall of 2004, an event took place in Kyiv known as the Maidan. No sooner had the Central Electoral Commission headed by Serhii Kivalov announced that Viktor Yanukovych had been “elected” as Ukraine’s president than a fortress of tents rose up on Kyiv’s Independence...

The internationally known Ukrainian accordionist Ihor Zavadsky says that his music has a beneficial effect on health. Thanks to his tour of eastern Ukraine, he rid state officials of their insomnia (those who became enemies of culture either of their own free will or as a result of circumstances),...