Yuriy Zelinsky

Even the longest vacation has to end. It has been five months since Volodymyr Klychko’s hard-fought victory over Nigerian Sam Peter for the status of mandatory contender for the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization titles. Boxing fans spent all this time guessing whom the...

The Turino 2006 Winter Olympics are less than two weeks away. Everyone is getting ready for the games: from athletes, government officials, and journalists to the National Olympic Committee (NOC) partners who have taken on a number of commitments. There was a pleasant surprise for fans from the UMC...

There is supreme justice after all. You must agree that it would not be dignified for a country with three soccer players who have won the Golden Ball, the Oscar of soccer, if there were one, to ignore the ceremony of taking part in the world championships. On Tuesday, Oleh Blokhin and his golden...

The Executive Committee of UEFA has selected three countries eligible for the 2012 European soccer championship finals. The list includes Ukraine and Poland. Italy and Hungary will continue competing for the bid together with Croatia, and Greece and Turkey have been dropped from the list. Ukrainian...

On Wednesday, Nov. 9, the One-Street Museum on Andriyivsky Uzviz launched an exhibit entitled “Mouthpiece of the Soviet Period,” organized in collaboration with the Collectors Club. The exhibit consists of Hennadiy Kyrkevych’s private collection of posters reflecting a mythological history of a...

A team of top Ukrainian hairstylists recently traveled to Paris to take part in the festival Mondial Coiffure Beaute. The veteran member organizations of the Intercoiffure Mondial call it the main event of the year. During the event Ukrainian hairdressers, together with representatives of 11 teams...

On June 6 Ukraine’s Ministry for Youth and Sports hosted a news conference with Europe’s best soccer player of 2004 Andriy Shevchenko and Minister Yuriy Pavlenko. The Ukrainian striker stayed behind in Kyiv for an important reason. Sheva, as he is known to millions of his fans, has become an...

On the last weekend of May many European countries finished their national championships that determined the contestants for the most prestigious club tournament, the UEFA Champions League. The Ukrainian vice-champion will start in the second qualifying round. Both Kyiv Dynamo and Donetsk Shakhtar...