№21, (2006)
27.06.2006 - 00:00
Roman STOROZHEV: private investments to boost gas production
Many experts call the impending price increase for Russian and Turkmen gas the main threat to Ukraine’s economic stability. Considering that gas accounts for 40 percent of all energy consumed in our...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
A joyless coalition
At long last Yulia Tymoshenko’s bloc, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party of Ukraine have formed a parliamentary coalition. Roman Bezsmertny’s motion to postpone the date of its announcement...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
US Ambassador’s “peaceful mission”
The fifth US Ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst, has completed his diplomatic mission. Shortly before Herbst’s departure, President Viktor Yushchenko awarded him the Order of Merit, 3rd degree....
27.06.2006 - 00:00
In memory of the executed Ukrainian Council
Soon we shall celebrate the 85 th anniversary of the All-Ukrainian Church Council (Sobor) in Kyiv, which restored the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for a short period of time. The...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
Ukraine has a place in Europe British MPs promise support
British parliamentarians have formed an interparliamentary UK-Ukraine group to facilitate multilateral and informal contacts among British and Ukrainian politicians, including parliamentarians and...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
Only girls in the sky
Last weekend a national women’s large-formation skydiving record was set over Kyiv, or, to be more exact, over the Central Antonov Air Club at the Chaika stadium. For the first time, 20 girls made a...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
Massandra in danger!
Every year on June 15, the birth anniversary of one of Ukraine’s wine-making geniuses, Oleksandr Yehorov, the Massandra Winery in the Crimea celebrates its corporate holiday. This year’s celebration...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
A deadly evil
Six and a half decades have passed since that infinitely long day of June 22, 1941, which brought terrible news into every Ukrainian home — more terrible than all the plagues-war had begun! Our...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
The mayor mulls over a dry law. Will it help?
“If I sign a ban on selling alcohol today, what will our city’s guests think of us?” Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky asked this rhetorical question at a recent meeting of the Kyiv City Administration...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
“Kyiv of the 1910s-1930s was the mecca of ‘leftwing artists’”
This July the Chicago Arts Center and New York’s Ukrainian Museum will hold an exhibit of paintings by Malevich, Bohomazov, Yermilov, Burliuk, Maksymovych, and many other noted Ukrainian artists....
27.06.2006 - 00:00
“The coalition should not be formed by fomenting war”
Below James Sherr, fellow of the Conflict Studies Research Centre, UK Defence Academy, shares his views on the Orange Coalition. One can only hope that the newly established coalition will be a...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
A suit as a way of life
Linen and silk clothing with mandatory leather or chiffon appliques as well as unusual thin, wool evening dresses with long trains and small jackets will be in fashion this summer. That is the...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
Lifelike
A big gray wolf bares its teeth at me. Next to it industrious beavers are preoccupied with building their dam, next to them a female fox plays with her pups, and above them a white-tailed sea eagle...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
The people and the Constitution:
The true habitat of a constitution is the human heart, not paper. So any constitution should be assessed not by its literary style but exclusively by its ability to make the state provide security,...
27.06.2006 - 00:00
The village of Hvardiyske named UNESCO heritage site
The village of Hvardiyske, located about 20 kilometers from Khmelnytsky, has suddenly come into the spotlight of the world media. This village, which was called Feldshtyn, until 1947, is a point on...
















