№22, (2006)
11.07.2006 - 00:00
Computer to speak Ukrainian
For many blind people, talking PCs with voice-recognition software are the only means of staying in contact with the rest of the world. A Ukrainian-language version will soon become available in our...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
“Counterrevolution is impossible”
Ukraine recently played host to Kabanychbek ISABEKOV, the deputy speaker of the Zhogorku Kenesh, the parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic, who arrived on a working visit. His main objective was to study...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
The Golden Tile award brought to Kyiv
The French city of Roumazieres-Loubert recently hosted a festival of ceramics, sculpture, and pottery. This year the organizers invited participants to fantasize on the circus theme. Ukraine was...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
Summit before the summit
The World Summit of Religious Leaders, initiated and organized by the Moscow Patriarchate’s external religious affairs department, ended in the Russian capital on July 5. The Moscow media write that...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
Mykola Mozgovy calls it quits
There will be no more prestigious Volodymyr Ivasiuk international pop competitions or More Druziv (Sea of Friends) contest. Although it is hard to believe, Mykola Mozgovy, the celebrated Ukrainian...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
Each church eaches God following its own path
The Department of Religious Studies at the Hryhoriy Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences was founded 15 years ago. Those were the years when not only Ukraine was...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
The government errs, the consumer pays
In contravention of all laws, Naftohaz Ukrainy, Ukraine’s largest state-run company, has been working without governmental supervision for more than six months — since Nov. 15, when the government...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
System slippage: causes and consequences
To say that Ukrainian politicians are stunned by the latest events in parliament is to say nothing. Some of them feel lost and depressed, while others are searching for a place in the new system of...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
The grandeur of Mykhailo Drahomanov
Mykhailo Drahomanov is one of the premier figures of Ukrainian civic, scholarly, and socio-cultural life of the 1860s-1890s. He belongs to the pleiad of Ukrainian and pan-Slavic luminaries, “apostles...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
Putin the spinmeister
Russia is getting ready for the G8 summit to be held later this week in St. Petersburg. The political establishment seems to be sparing neither effort nor expense to boost the country’s image and...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
The right way to make coffee
Coffee is the most popular beverage in Ukraine. One can even describe coffee drinking as a lifestyle. But everyone has his own preferences. Coffee lovers are generally divided into four groups:...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
Kuwaiti Democracy in Action
Kuwait has just held its eleventh parliamentary election since independence in 1961. Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
The right way to love Taras, or: What is the difference between a scholarly debate and a scandal?
You can find portraits of Taras Shevchenko everywhere — from the president’s office to a village house. Monuments to the Bard are ubiquitous. Streets, squares, and educational institutions bear his...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
Historical and modern Ukraine in miniature
On July 7-9 the capital’s Spivoche Pohle (Singing Field) was the venue of the third ethnic festival Country of Dreams, initiated by Oleh Skrypka. This event is evolving with every passing year. It...
11.07.2006 - 00:00
Ponomariov will invite us to the ball
In issue no. 95 our newspaper wrote about the hardships that the organizers of the 15 th Slavic Bazaar faced, when even Ukraine’s participation in this prestigious music forum was in question. Now...














