Serhiy Stepanyshyn

As a rule, new people come to power with new goals, including new foreign policy goals. “Viktor Yushchenko’s overriding goal is to ensure Ukraine’s full membership in the European Union,” Oleh Rybachuk, one of Yushchenko’s closest associates said recently. He added that like the countries that...

Ukraine’s real gross domestic product has grown 13.5% in the past seven months of 2004 against 9.4% over the same period last year. What is more, inflation was running at a mere 4.3% in January-August as compared with 8.2% in the whole year 2003. At the most conservative governmental estimate,...

The people of Rivne oblast recently celebrated the 99th birth anniversary of the outstanding Ukrainian man of letters Ulas Samchuk. Unfortunately, even today, in the thirteenth year of Ukraine’s independence, most Ukrainians have either never heard of the Homer of Volhynia or, still in thrall to...

The Bolshevik propaganda machine produced a large number of myths and legends that were far from the historical truth, but which helped establish the misleading principles of builders of communism and at the same time sever whole peoples from their historical roots, thus securing those in power...

It all started last year, during the Days of French Culture in Rivne oblast, organized by the French Embassy and the French Alliance (director Nadiya Chumak), starring the French virtuoso guitarist Michel Sadanowski who gave a solo concert at the Rivne Philharmonic Society. Later, he visited the...