Liubov Kovalevska

For all the complexities and difficulties in human life that demand courage, I have always considered myself a person lucky with my biography. This is not so much because my family life is sufficiently harmonious and inspired (never considering everyday life as primary), as because I have been...

Talking about dogs means talking first about people, about our inner selves we carefully hide behind all those reasons and circumstances of our lives; about our lacking ethical thinking and our perverted attitude toward the world of living things and inanimate objects. This essence is in...

Power Unit Four in Chornobyl blew up fourteen years ago. Ukraine proclaimed its independence ten years ago. All these years we have wholeheartedly cursed the Soviet Union, blaming it for all seven deadly sins, as well as for sins it never perpetrated and those we committed ourselves. We seem...

(Concluded from previous issue) III Self-organization, rather than organization resulting from coercion or propaganda, is the right model for any community. The countryside is a self-sufficient formation, whose self- organization occurred and now rests on a political-cultural system of...

The following is a sharply-worded polemic by Liubov Kovalevska on the mentality inherent in Ukrainians. This woman journalist is well known in Ukraine and was the first to foretell the Chornobyl tragedy. This time Kovalevska broaches national traits formed over centuries, which have helped the...

A new material for plastic surgery in the form of a gel appeared several years ago, almost simultaneously in Ukraine and Russia. Remarkably, in both cases it proved to have the same characteristics making it a truly unique discovery. In which of the two countries did it actually originate? In an...