№11, (2008)
25.03.2008 - 00:00
100-year-old dynasty of Ukrainian meteorologists
At the very edge of the steep bank of the alpine Cheremosh River near Kuty, in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, stands a run-down two-story structure without windows and doors. It is a gathering place for...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
A forgotten anniversary
There is nothing that Ukrainians love more than anniversaries. In order to have a rip-roaring time (our people have a weakness for good times, above all our leaders, and especially when the bill is...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
What are we afraid of?
The latest polls show that Ukrainians are the unhappiest people in Europe, and they have the shortest average life span. Experts have also determined that people who make long-term plans (e.g., stock...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
Poustovit line is crowning touch of Ukrainian Fashion Week
This year Ukrainian Fashion Week broke with its 10-year tradition of having Ukraine’s leading designer Lilia Poustovit open the fashion show season with her clothing collection. Instead, the latest...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
Joining the European Union without poverty
Ukraine will be actively combating poverty in order to meet European standards in the social sphere. This was announced by Ukraine’s Minister of Labor and Social Policy Liudmyla Denysova in Vienna at...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
Fewer beer ads
Signs advertising alcohol and tobacco products will soon disappear from Ukrainian cities and villages, and ads for beer and cigarettes will no longer be aired on television and radio. A few days ago...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
“Written with light”
The Rivne Oblast Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater hosted The Day’s photography show from Feb. 4 until March 20. Among the organizers were the local photographers and past prize winners Anatolii...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
This week in history
March 25 1993: The National Central Interpol Bureau is founded in Ukraine. 1994: Ukraine and Russia sign a 10-year cultural cooperation agreement. March 26 1919: The Supreme Soviet of National...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
No need to panic
The Ukrainian leadership is very perturbed by the death of a Ukrainian member of the UN police force and the wounding of 20 others who were taking part in the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. This...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
Offensive against the blind
For over two years Petro Omelchuk, the head of the Republican Sound Recording and Printing House of the Ukrainian Association for the Blind, has been beating down the doors of City Hall, trying to...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
America the Beautiful
It saddens me to see the gradual escalation of anti-American moods in Ukraine. I wonder why some of my fellow Ukrainians don’t bother to figure out where the wind is blowing and who can benefit...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
Family members coming for a visit!
March 22 marked the 70th anniversary of the birth of Viktor Zakharchenko, the artistic director of the Kuban State Academic Cossack Choir that will be touring Ukraine in April. Zakharchenko is a...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
My Lina Kostenko
For many people Lina KOSTENKO embodies an alternative, the real Ukraine — that dimension and system of coordinates from which, lamentably, a large part of our society is retreating. As a...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
Letters from Ukraine about the Membership Action Plan
The Ukrainian government seems to be learning from its mistakes and pursuing a more transparent foreign policy. Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko have sent...
25.03.2008 - 00:00
Five degrees warmer and — disaster!
Now that the Black Sea is getting warmer, the Crimean State Agency of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine is busy cleaning up the oil slicks that are being washed ashore in the Strait of...
















