№10, (2008)
18.03.2008 - 00:00
“Berlin is waiting for convincing arguments given by Kyiv,” considers former German ambassador to Ukraine Dietmar STUEDEMANN
Will Berlin after all oppose Washington’s attempts to give the MAP to Ukraine? These and other questions are raised in The Day ’s blitz interview with former ambassador of Germany to Ukraine and...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
The Kyiv test
If you compare Kyiv to a sick body, our capital city is in a state of crisis, with equal chances for the illness to progress and for recovery. There may be different attitudes to the crisis, but I am...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
Nikolai DENYSOV: “I wish that the beautiful views of the Carpathians, Polissia, and the Black Sea coast were not just on postage stamps”
With every passing day, water is becoming the cause of increasingly more conflicts among people, entire regions, and states. Aware that pure water and clean air and soil are more precious than oil...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
Slow down!
Last week Ukraine’s capital saw a strike of express minibus drivers, who threatened to hold a nationwide protest action unless their demands are met. The carriers are refusing to transport passengers...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
Why do they live better than us?
The first serious attempt to familiarize Ukrainian television viewers with NATO has been made by the creators of a documentary television series called Traveling through Europe in Search of the Enemy...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
Jerzy SZMAJDZINSKI: “I can see that Viktor Yanukovych behaves like Jaroslaw Kaczynski”
Jerzy Szmajdzinski, the deputy speaker of the Polish parliament, leader of the Left Democratic Union fraction and the same-named party, and former defense minister, does not conceal the fact that the...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
This week in history
March 18 1848: The Hungarian parliament passes a bill annulling serfdom in Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia). 1913: A military organization known as the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen is created in Lviv, the...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
President Bush to visit Kyiv
There is a strong possibility that President George Bush will visit Ukraine, most likely before the NATO summit in Bucharest scheduled for April 2-4. The US president said he wanted to visit...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
New publication: <I>Ukraine on Maps </I>
On March 12 the Hungarian Embassy in Kyiv hosted the launch of the Ukrainian-Hungarian co-publication of the geographic atlas Ukraine on Maps. The ceremony was attended by scholars from both...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
Multicolored France
Two hundred journalists from a number of countries, including a correspondent from The Day, recently spent time in Paris. The media people did not see an ideal country but the real France. We met...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
Youth and courage capture Lviv
No one in the entire 20th century or before, between, and after the two world wars ever succeeded in carrying out a project comparable to the one that was organized by a humble fifth-year Ukrainian...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
How can we sustain our economic independence?
The following interview is part of our newspaper’s plan to acquaint readers with the views of two ministers of the economy — one from the real cabinet and the other from the “shadow cabinet,” which...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
Warning: Dangerous products!
The Ukrainian State Research Centre for Certification, Metrology, Standardization, and Consumer Right Protection (Ukrmetrteststandart) recently organized an unusual exhibit featuring shoddy and...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
A book for the third millennium
Writing about Shevchenko is a privilege that must be deserved, sometimes with one’s whole life. The words of our greatest poet, thinker, and creator of the spiritual cosmos of Ukrainians formed our...
18.03.2008 - 00:00
Fashion weekend in Kyiv
Last weekend a fashion show in Kyiv showcased collections by Ukraine’s leading designers and trendsetters, including Nota Bene...