Hanna Teliuk

A group of people staged a pogrom at the Central Synagogue at 13 Shota Rustaveli St., Kyiv, April 13. Law enforcement authorities claim the raid took place at 9:10 p.m., but eyewitnesses insist it began at 9:30. They threw stones, smashing nine windows on the second floor. Militia reports rule out...

Most our people have a rather vague idea about comics, associating them with funny pictures in children’s magazines, showing heroes of animated cartoons and their simple dialogues. In actuality, this synthetic genre was born more than a hundred years ago and it occupies a major place in the culture...

“The crews of Ukrainian ships impounded in Mauritania refuse to go ashore unless paid their wages.” “ The M. V. Princess Sarah, with a crew of 18 including eight Ukrainians, was seized by a pirate gang. The pirates demanded a $200,000 ransom.” Reports of this kind regularly hit our headlines....

Ukrainian antiglobalists staged another rally in front of the cabinet building on January 30. This time the reason was the official campaign against pirate CDs. What actually happened was that a group of university students identifying themselves as the antiglobalist movement of Ukraine gathered by...

Many psychologists claim that an inclination to idolization is a characteristic of children. Both junior schoolchildren and teenagers often create themselves idols and try to imitate them, copying their way of behaving, dressing, and talking. Such childish idolization is natural, unlike the images...

The First All-Ukrainian Census is to be held between December 5 and 14. Last time the population of Ukraine was enumerated in January 1989 as part of the last All-Union census. Lack of reliable statistical data on the country’s population that defines its quantitative and qualitative dimensions is...

On November 16 winners of the 2001 Sun Awards For Achievements in the Internet Sphere contest became known. The contest was held through October and November by the initiative of Sun Microsystems, Kvazar- Micro, and First Tuesday Kyiv companies. It represented a festival of Ukrainian Internet...

For several years Ukrainian museums, the treasuries of our nation’s history and culture, have been languishing in a state of dreams that did not come true. Gone are the times when museum curators did not need to worry about their daily bread and relied when need be on financial and organizational...

Yevhen HOLOVAKHA, head research fellow, Institute of Sociology, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences: I consider this a direct consequence and indicator of the level of political culture our political officials have preserved from Soviet times up to the present. Their reaction is evidence...

On October 19, a special commission was established with Ivan Fomenko, first deputy of the Kyiv City Administration, at the head to examine the ecological situation at the Radykal Plant (Desniansky, former Vatutin district of Kyiv), UNIAN quotes Kyiv Mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko as saying during a...