Petro Matviyenko

Last January President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine issued an edict on conferring Order of Yaroslav the Wise Fifth Degree on US citizen Yury S. Verlynsky, director of the Chicago- based Institute of Reproductive Genetics, “for outstanding personal contribution to research in the area of reproductive...

A ten-meter bronze horseman will be a monument to Cossack Sotnyk [Captain] Kharko (aka Kharyton). According to legend, he built a fortress in the seventeenth century and gave his name to the town and one of the local rivers. Interestingly, the statue will be a jubilee present to Kharkiv from its...

Not so long ago, Kharkiv’s State Institute of Art elected a new rector, Prof. Tetyana Verkina, a gifted pianist, noted teacher producing virtuoso performers, and a well- known public figure. She is the author of the international festival Kharkiv Assemblies, marking its tenth anniversary this year...

One of the oldest in Ukraine and the rest of the former Soviet Union, the Kharkiv Circus marked its 120th anniversary this year. Unfortunately, like most Ukraine’s circuses, it is going through a bad patch. “LAW ENFORCEMENT” ADDRESSES OF THE CIRCUS In 1883, the Nikitin...