Built in the image of a Ukrainian thatched-roof hut, it stands opposite another intellectual landmark, Taras Shevchenko University.

BBC: Weekend in Kiev

Taras Grescoe, a Montreal-based writer, believes Canadian niceness is born of necessity.

BBC: Can Canada teach the rest of us to be nicer?

Taras Kuzio, in his piece for United Press International, explains why he thinks that the Ukrainian elections in 2012 are going to be dirty.

FORBES: Prison, Boxing, and Fair Elections

The Crown Prosecution Service said no further action would be taken against freelance journalist Terenia Taras, former Evening Standard journalist Raoul Simons, and former News of the World junior reporter Ross Hall, all of whom were arrested in the phone-hacking probe.

WSJ: Eight Charged With Phone-Hacking Offenses in U.K.