Ruslan Kaniuka

The Parliamentary Preparatory Group is going to meet again one of these days in order to work out the mechanism of launching the first session of the next-convocation parliament. So far, things are barely plodding along in this area. The opposition insists on individual voting in the new...

This year’s elections, whatever their results are, are a kind of sociology of the society’s condition. There have been some twists, including serious violations of the elections legislation – abuse of the administrative resource, the so called “merry-go-round,”...

On May 25, 1926, Symon Petliura, the Chief Otaman of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR), was shot by Sholom Schwartzbard while walking on rue Racine, near Saint-Michel, in Paris. It was a textbook assassination, long since having been proved that the assassin was a man of varying, unstable...

Last week an article, co-authored by Belgium’s ex-Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and Russia’s former head of government, Mikhail Kasyanov, was published in The International Herald Tribune. The article, headlined “Helsinki 2.0: Supporting Democracy and Rule of Law in Russia,...

Not long ago, under the soviet rule, Kamianets-Podilsky was considered to be an industrial town rather than a touristic one. However, it became a tourist center within a short period of time. Every year Kamianets-Podilsky becomes more attractive in terms of the infrastructure, living standards,...

Khotyn is truly a unique city. Are there many Ukrainian cities with a thousand-year history? And what outstanding history! Can they boast of being depicted by classics of art and literature? Mikhail Lomonosov wrote the Ode to the Seizure of Khotyn in 1739, Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel Fire in...

For the first time the exposition of the Grand Sculpture Salon is located on the renovated 8,000 square meters of Art Arsenal. Such grand scale and the new location have noticeably influenced the perception of this event. The artworks seem to feel significantly freer and more organic here than in...

For the umpteenth consecutive year His Beatitude Liubomyr (Huzar) has gathered followers of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for the Christmas Host Meeting in Kyiv. This event, at which the Patriarch shares the Christmas bread with those present, symbolizes spiritual unity. It is not by chance...

They say that back in Soviet times people wore the same coats, shoes, and even had the same haircuts. It looks as if such uniformity should not have promoted creative development, in particular, that of Ukrainian hair stylists. Yet when Ukraine became independent, it turned out that our stylists...