Diana Klochko

Since the middle of the seventeenth century October 15 has been a special day for the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. This year birthday was celebrated with devotion to the 1658 Treaty of Hadiach, which officially gave the academy the prerogatives and rights of an institution of higher education, Ukraine’s...

After exploring some art exhibits, people feel bitter and the feeling lingers. This is not simple observation but the sudden awareness that what you are looking at relates to the paradoxical inability to fulfil oneself in one’s own culture, despite the fact that this phenomenon lives cozily and...

Not so long ago the capital’s book journalist community witnessed a funny event. It could be described as a scandal and heated debate at the same time. The newspaper Literatura Plus, published irregularly and having too many problems with design (and print run, of course), carried three devastating...

Awarding a prestigious literary prize has to be accompanied by scandal if it is to be a real event. It is a rule now confirmed by Ukrainian experience. Picture an awards ceremony, with almost one-third of the laureates not appearing onstage to receive their diplomas, even though invited to attend...

School bells rang for the last time this year last Tuesday also for nine graduates of the Grand Educational Corporation, Ukraine’s most prestigious private institution. Their teachers believe these young people have learned to think adequately in current chronically changing realities and the...

Everybody needs foreign languages. In any case, many of us already feel the need to have at least a minimal command of one. And how many are those who, after paying handsome money for cassettes, private tutors, self-teaching textbooks, etc., have fallen short of their expectations to...

We have already got used to expecting the works of Professor Natalia Yakovenko, both journal articles and books, to produce the effect of wiping off the dust of customary stereotypes in perceiving the past as a text written once and for all. Her styles of written and spoken speech almost coincide,...

Is it possible to support the National Art Museum, domestic producer, and restaurant business, all at the same time? Even the latter two components do not always produce a positive effect in Ukraine. As for artistic values, the ceiling in some of the rooms of the National Art Museum keeps peeling...