№7, (2008)
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Talisman made with one’s own hands
There is something truly magical about Ukrainian rag dolls, which are called lialky-motanky, and the process of making them. I became aware of this as soon as I sensed the atmosphere at the Museum of...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Top readiness
The final preparation stage has come for the Ukrainian athletes who will be competing in the 29th Summer Olympic Games, which will take place in Beijing, China, on Aug. 8-24, 2008. Unlike the...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
The quality of our discussions
Hryhorii Nemyria, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and International Integration, has worked for various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). He was an international affairs adviser to...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Sukhishvili National Ballet of Georgia puts on two sold-out performances in Kyiv
The renowned Sukhishvili dance group, which has been the crown jewel of the Georgian national school of dance for the past 63 years, began its program in Kyiv in a synchronic and passionate manner....
26.02.2008 - 00:00
EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy? Let’s be patient!
From today’s perspective history of the European Union is a process of small scale projects, which with time, were being developed into endeavours of grand magnitude that influenced millions of...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Carnivalia at this year’s Coronation of the Word
The second Carnivalia masquerade ball was held in the columned hall of Kyiv City Hall. It was organized by the Art Treasury International Charitable Foundation, whose president is Tetiana Logush....
26.02.2008 - 00:00
A prayer for Hetman Mazepa
President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine met with Alexei II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The head of the Ukrainian state was accompanied by Ukraine’s...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Little martyrs dreaming of tomorrow
On International Childhood Cancer Day there were so many people waiting to donate blood at the donor center of the Kyiv Regional Oncological Dispensary that they had to stand in line. Kyiv resident...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Local referendum in Kyiv oblast to decide on construction of spent nuclear fuel storage
Ukraine needs a spent nuclear fuel storage facility that would be centrally controlled. It costs too much to reprocess spent fuel in Russia and, at any rate, Ukraine would eventually have to take it...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Ivan Mazepa: Mykhailo Starytsky’s version
It was no accident that Mykhailo Starytsky chose to write about Ivan Mazepa: with his dilogy Molodost Mazepy (Mazepa’s Youth), and Ruina (The Ruin) he was continuing his series of historical...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
How to avoid losing the younger generation
The latest research of the World Health Organization (WTO) indicates that young Ukrainians rank first in the world in terms of alcohol consumption. The statistics of Ukraine’s Ministry of Health (MOZ...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Gas transparency test
What was actually the subject of the gas negotiations led by Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Moscow and what are their outcomes? This is the question that is being asked even by those...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Crime, repentance, and reconciliation
What can be done to keep children out of prisons, so-called correctional labor facilities? It is an open secret that inmates are not “corrected” there. Judicial statistics point to a vicious circle...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
Six Ukrainian designers show their clothing lines in Washington, D. C.
The members of the organizing committee of Ukrainian Fashion Week, which will take place on March 11-19, 2008, are convinced that fashion is too broad a phenomenon to dictate only wardrobe rules. At...
26.02.2008 - 00:00
This week in history
Feb. 26 1878: The trial of a group of noted Galician public figures, among them Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Pavlyk, and Ostap Terletsky, begins in Lviv. 1993: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the...















