№27, (2004)
19.10.2004 - 00:00
Kisses to the Rescue?
Valentyna V. CHOPIAK, who lives and works in Lviv, has been appointed Chief Immunologist of Ukraine. She is a medical doctor and heads the Western Ukrainian Regional Clinical Immunology and Allergy...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
The Cost of the Question
This momentous question is once again front-page news. As reported earlier, the Constitutional Court ruled that the draft law on constitutional amendments, known as Bill No. 4180, complies with the...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
Vyshyvanka or Budyonovka?
Good-bye, Lenin! was named Europe’s best film last year, and we increasingly often observe young people sporting T-shirts or windbreakers with cynical legends like “USSR”; every second Ukrainian...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
Embroidered in Stone
Seventy-seven-year-old Volodymyra Adevnina from Ternopil has an unusual hobby for her age. She makes quaint figurines of animals, fairy-tale characters, flowers, miniature replicas of medieval...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
Crimean Tatars Find It Easier to Acquire Ukrainian Citizenship
The other day Ukraine officially denounced the Ukraine-Uzbekistan bilateral treaty on the prevention of dual citizenship, which until now did not allow Crimean Tatar repatriants, citizens of...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
Barn Raising Ukrainian-Style
Hopping on one leg, six-year-old Olia was telling her friend: “We slaughtered a hog, because we’re going to have a toloka! And we also made homebrew, but don’t tell anybody.” The girls are looking...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
The US Antimissile Shield: Possible Prospects for the Ukrainian Military Industrial Complex
The view that the West is not interested in the Ukrainian military industrial complex (VPK) is now a hackneyed clich О . Yet last week’s visit by Thomas Pickering, Boeing senior vice-president for...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
The Kobzar and the Bard: Shevchenko and Burns as Great Freedom Singers
Until recently I was inclined to claim that, as soon as Ukrainebegan to live a normal cultural and political life, Shevchenko wouldcease to be an icon and a prophet and be “just” one of...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
Chernivtsi Moving toward UNESCO
The idea of adding the historic center of Chernivtsi to the UNESCO World Heritage List is not a recent one, and the international conference entitled “Preserving and Using Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
A Light in the European Tunnel
On Monday First Vice-Premier and Finance Minister Mykola Azarov met with Ian Bogue of the European Union, who has just started his diplomatic mission in Ukraine. The vice-premier’s adviser Vitaly...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
A Resounding “Quiet” Project
Tykha Bukhta (Quiet Bay), near the famous Crimean resort area of Koktebel, has once again made headlines with a controversy surrounding plot allocations to Crimean Tatars, which has been brewing...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
Potatoes and... Evolution
The potato season is over. Although everything went routinely, this event deserves notice. Come to think of it, potatoes are a pillar of democracy and every other political system. Sacks full of...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
Amid the Dunes Of Human Spite
The ice has finally melted: Polish writers and artists, who were born in Volyn and wrote about this heroic and fabulous land, are now on display at the Volyn Ethnography Museum. While we learned...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
“Digitally Yours”
Last Wednesday Kyiv’s International Exhibition Center kicked off high-tech week. Producers exhibited new specialized television broadcasting equipment and technologies. A 300-sq. m. area was devoted...
19.10.2004 - 00:00
A New Mission
NATO will soon send 300 military instructors to Iraq. This is the bottom line of a recent informal meeting of alliance defense ministers in Romania. This decision must have come the hard way, given...












