Dear Readers,

If June weather isn't enough to get you hot under the collar, then Andrew Byrne's cover story on Kyiv's plans for dealing with the city's traffic problems should. The story lays out all the relevant details, but as you sort through them it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the city's ideas have nothing whatsoever to do with limiting the number of vehicles on our streets - except to spend huge amounts of money on more parking spaces. So far as truly innovative ways of having fewer cars flooding the streets, there seems to be little or nothing.

If that wasn't enough, Dr. Pavlo Prokopovych says in our economic analysis piece this month that the economy is becoming overheated and the result may be at least a slowdown and perhaps even worse.

Serhiy Kharchenko has some interesting observations about Lenin and Ukraine and Volodymyr Senchenko waxes lyrical about the Ukrainian language, including some previously unsung medical value therein.

Michael Willard suggests that senior citizens hard at work is becoming a much more common phenomenon, while Glen Willard views life through the prism of that great American pastime, baseball.

Other articles bring you interesting information on IT outsourcing, and quilting as partial solution to some of Ukrainian social problems.

Quite a mixed bag this month, but then eclectic is our middle name.

Enjoy - and come again next month.

The Editors