Kostiantyn Hryshyn

Why Verkhovna Rada delays harmonization of customs tariffs with the EU?MPs of the Ukrainian parliament plan to adopt next bunch of European integration laws necessary for trading rapprochement with the EU during the next plenary week. Some of them, as we know, have been already adopted. In the...

The rehabilitation centers (for men and women) for drug addicted persons at the Protestant church “Victory,” in Brovary, Kyiv oblast, are known as Ukraine’s best ones, apparently, based on their results. After all, the life of its pastor is the best proof of this. Serhii DUDKA...

The exhibition is called “Lviv-ARTextiles.” At some point Lviv became the heart of professional artistic textiles development. The city of Lviv with its ability to radiate intellectual and creative energy, influenced by the fact that contemporary textiles art has not only adapted...

Ukraine became the fifth country in the world where publishers took a chance with publishing the unique Bible with Salvador Dali’s illustrations. Before, the book was published in limited edition in Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Potential buyers are the wealthy people....

International Festival “Live in Blue Bay” took place for the fourth time in the Crimean resort Blue Bay. This is the only forum where everyone could enjoy good music and listen to the leading jazz musicians for free. Musicians performed on two stages. Over 30 jazz bands from 10...

On the one hand, a common thing in Mystetsky Arsenal, many showcased works are commercial, decorative in the worst meaning of the word. On the other hand, the exhibit includes a number of well-thought, conceptually reasoned exposition projects, which is quite a rare quality. The Salon’s...

Enjoying the silence in today’s turbulent, urban world is a sort of gourmet pleasure: a rare treat, valued by few. Silence provokes questions and makes one face his or her inner self. In Kyiv, the city of opportunity and bustling energy of young minds, a tete-a-tete with your own ego is virtually...

We enter the room and stop still, astonished by the innumerable embroidered pieces. They are everywhere, on the walls, on old low wooden stools, and on painted chests. As she walks in, Svitlana Kytova makes a sign of the cross to the four sides. “This is how I say hi to them,” she...

The closing night of the Kyiv Arsenale started with anarchists. A couple of guys at the entrance to the Mystetsky Arsenal were handing out leaflets with calls to resist the “bloc of capital and red tape” and waving with black and black-and-red banners. It was really gratifying, because any cultural...

For a third year in a row, the Swiss IMD-Lausanne business school ranks Ukraine as one of the least attractive states for opening and doing business in its World Competitiveness Yearbook. We were second from last the year before last and third from the end last year on the IMD ranking list. This...