Viktoria Herasymchuk

In 2006 alone 900 women have been killed by their husbands during drunken brawls and other types of altercations — by men who had pledged to love them forever, in joy as well as in sorrow. There are no official statistics on domestic violence, and the above figures indicate the number of domestic...

The majority of the adult population in Ukraine — more than 94 percent — have heard or read about the famine of 1932 — 1933. The best informed people are residents of the country’s central region (15 percent), somewhat less informed are the residents of eastern Ukraine (10 percent) and southern...

Starting next year, only married couples with an average monthly gross family income below 5,000 hryvnias, assessed over the previous six months, will be eligible for one-time childbirth benefits. That is the gist of Article 60 of the draft of the 2007 budget law, which has been posted on the...

A gold ring, two amphorae, and a cup dedicated to Hercules are the treasures that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) handed over last Tuesday to the National Museum of Ukrainian History. These valuables were seized from a Sevastopol-Moscow train conductor, who was trying to smuggle them to the...

Ukraine’s first nationwide comprehensive study completed this year shows that there are about 500,050 drug abusers in our country. Until now the official figure was 160,000 registered drug addicts. Quite predictably, the real figure turned out to be much higher. Doctors claim that we should now be...

With each passing year, more and more people are visiting the traditional flower exhibition on Independence Day. On Ukraine’s 15 th birthday, Kyiv’s Pechersk Landscape Park was chock-a-block with visitors eager to acquire a plant — a live one or, at worst, an artificial plant. The latter variety is...

Applications to higher educational institutions have been submitted, and high school graduates are now writing their admissions exams. The most interesting events are still ahead of them, of course, but certain important conclusions can be made on the basis of documents submitted by university...

Deputy Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Viacheslav Kyrylenko believes that in a few years Ukraine will be a leader in the development of rural tourism. On July 4 the cabinet adopted an action plan to support rural tourism in 2006-2010. “These measures envisage consultations for rural tourism...

About 10 years ago I was very surprised by what a friend of mine told me about the United States: there are a lot of street people, who behave aggressively, and if a smelly tramp sits down next to you in the subway, you cannot move to another seat because there will be a big scandal or even a...

The phrase “rural tourism” (“green tourism”) usually stumps people. What can you do in a village? What is there to see, say Ukrainians who are not familiar with this kind of tourism. Village vacations haven’t become fashionable in our country. People try to spend their holidays in Turkey or at...