№8, (2008)
04.03.2008 - 00:00
The Year of Castles and Palaces begins
It was symbolic that the ceremony of signing the declaration proclaiming 2008 the Year of Castles and Palaces of Western Ukraine by the heads of the Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv,...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Unique landscapes are being tallied
On March 1 the second stage of the nationwide “Seven Wonders of Ukraine” campaign will be launched in Ukraine. This time around the organizers of the event, the brainchild of MP Mykola Tomenko, are...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Advice from the European Parliament
It looks as though Ukrainian citizens are not the only ones worried about the temporary “turbulences” besetting the Ukrainian parliament. Consider the recent appeal to Ukrainian politicians by the...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Prices under fire
To see the prospects of inflation, Ukrainians do not have at all to look into the pseudo-scientific and often contradictory comments of bureaucrats and experts. All they have to do is regularly visit...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Euro 2012: the last chance
Experts estimate that only 30 percent of the preparations for the European soccer finals scheduled for 2012 in Ukraine and Poland are sports-related. The other 70 percent of the work is aimed at...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
A masterpiece of Ukrainian Baroque
The overwhelming majority of monasteries, churches, and holy places, which since time immemorial have been Ukraine’s spiritual treasure and national pride, no longer exist. Everything that had been...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
On national self-identification
During the discussions at the recent Europe-Ukraine International Forum, the invited experts sought to define the essence of a nation’s historical memory, and how it is connected with European...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Essential progress
Even though the British people no longer consider Ukraine a poor country, they will continue assisting our country, this time in a new way. The British government has decided to close the UK...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Are prisoners not people?
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, the civic organization Donetsk Memorial, and the Penitentiary Society of Ukraine have forwarded a letter to...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Likely outcome of Project Yushchenko-2
Party members are fleeing the Our Ukraine ship. As reported earlier, six people have quit the ranks of the NU-NS (Our Ukraine/People’s Self-Defense) on the heels of Viktor Baloha. This is probably...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Faces of emigration
Last year Liudmyla Petrykivska, a native of Ukraine, won the silver medal in the international literary competition The Golden Pen of Rus’. Petrykivska, a writer and journalist who lives in Germany,...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Yevhen MARCHUK: “Ukraine cannot ignore Russia’s concerns”
Yevhen Marchuk, Ukraine’s former defense minister and ex-secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, links the gas conflict with Russia to Ukraine’s intention to join NATO’s Membership...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Polish arguments concerning Ukrainians’ visa and border problems
The problem of visas for Ukrainians and the lineups on the Ukrainian-Polish border, which appeared after Poland joined the Schengen zone, was felt in Ukrainian-Polish relations last year. January’s...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
The sea and its “managers”
“We greeted Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organization with great enthusiasm. It is a very good stimulant,” said Volodymyr Volkov, head of the State Fisheries Committee of Ukraine. According...
04.03.2008 - 00:00
Echo of fidelity and love
March 4 is the birthday of Volodymyr Ivasiuk, one of the most talented figures in 20th-century Ukrainian music. His peers — Mykola Mozhovy, Ihor Poklad, Oleksandr Zlotnyk, Hennadii Tatarchenko, and...















