№10, (2003)

The discussion continues among Ukrainian economists and politicians about whether the minimum wage should be raised to UAH 237 as of July 1. In particular, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy...

March 25:1993. The Central Interpol Bureau of Ukraine was founded. 1994. Ukraine and Russia signed an agreement On Cultural Cooperation for a ten-year period. March 26: 1919. The Supreme...

Here The Day discusses the Verkhovna Rada’s criteria of professionalism, effectiveness, relations between the political elite and electorate, prospects of the political reform, the 2004 “ideal...

The biggest fans of beer are working married men with higher than average incomes who spend their leisure time with friends and colleagues and live in big cities. This category forms 49% of beer...

An unprecedented action has taken place in Ukraine: for the first time the domestic artists openly opposed the Chechnya war. Finally, kitchen and corridors talks made it to the public level. Of...

Owing to excessive social commitments to offer services in nonprofit market segments, the nation’s telecommunications operator Ukrtelekom has limited possibilities for investment in the development...

Last Wednesday Director of the Central Administration for Foreign Economic Contacts and Investment at the Kyiv City Administration Mykhailo Pozhyvanov announced that a carnival in honor of Brazil has...

Zhytomyr oblast authorities are serious worried by information that agencies of the Ministry for Emergency Management and those responsible for protecting people from the consequences of the...

A high-level group of the Four (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine) discussed drafting the concept of a single economic space (SES) on March 21 in Astana. According to Russian Vice Premier...

When it comes to morality, diplomats are usually seen as cold and calculating. Machiavelli and Metternich are synonymous with the ruthless pursuit of interest verging on dishonesty. Sir Henry Wootton...

In the not so distant past, a popular belief was that whites could not sing rap, play basketball, or box, for these were the domains of Black singers and athletes. Today white Eminem is one of the...

Why does my heart ache so whenever I recall that old story? I heard it from my mother when I was a little girl. Perhaps I was in a bad mood and didn’t want to clean my plate. In such cases parents...

What characterized the position of People’s Deputy Leonid Kravchuk, leader of the Social Democratic Party (United) fraction and first president of independent Ukraine, during the Verkhovna Rada...

The number of museum visitors in 2002 in the Crimea rose by 14% over the previous year, totaling 2,144,600. Last year 18 museums were operating there, including five literary, four arts, three local...

I would like to start with something beautiful and unforgettable. Italy, for example. Who has failed to marvel, even if from afar, at the luxury of its cathedrals, museums, palaces, the magic beauty...