Valery Kostiukevych

A logical reference point for assessing the new government’s activity would be the date when it was formed: that was February 4, 2005, more than two months ago. A new government is generally believed to show the most effective performance within the first 100 days of its formation. After this cut-...

Prof. Petro KRALIUK, Ostrih Academy National University: Suppose we proceed from the assumption that May 9 became a propaganda show in the Soviet Union, with WWII veterans often used as extras. Since 1965, when it became a red-letter day, Soviet propaganda purposefully formed in people’s minds the...

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...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the breast cancer rate is not decreasing. One million women throughout the world suffer from this disease, 14,000 of whom live in Ukraine. The Oncology Treatment Center in Zhytomyr oblast has records on 2,800 women who have had breast cancer surgery...

We have to face up to the challenge of international terrorism at the turn of the twenty-first century. Of course, we cannot expect to win this struggle without figuring out the ideas and motives of all those who engineer and/or carry out terrorist attacks, and without understanding the functional...

During his visit to Zhytomyr oblast, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Ukraine John Herbst had official meetings with the head of the Oblast State Administration, Serhiy Ryzhuk, and the mayor of Zhytomyr, Heorhy Buravkov. He also visited the Institute of...

Natalia KHARCHENKO, schoolteacher, Odesa: I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, there is a feeling of constant guilt before my parents and their generation; I feel guilty that with my pay I can’t provide them adequate living conditions, let alone an opportunity to rest and enjoy themselves;...

In early February a group of currently disabled former members of search and rescue teams that participated in liquidating the Chornobyl catastrophe, residing in Zhytomyr oblast, began preparing documents to apply to the European Court of Human Rights. The cause for their appeal is delays in...

Last Thursday the Zhytomyr Oblast State Archive for the first time since Ukrainian independence transferred the ancient scrolls of the Torah, the Judaic sacred book, to representatives of the Jewish communities of Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Vinnytsia, and other cities of Ukraine. The scriptures were...

This is the name of an action embracing over a hundred countries, held from October 25 to December 10 for the twelfth time by a number of international NGOs. Recently the Woman for Woman Zhytomyr Center hold a press conference with the support of the Winrock International Ukraine organization to...