№12, (2000)

The World Bank mission headed by Luca Barbone, regional manager for Ukraine and Belarus (left in the photo) has completed its work in Kyiv. Addressing the summary news conference on April 5, Mr....

Federal District Court in Houston, Texas passed a ruling in Case No. n-99371, the people vs. three crew members of the China Breeze (The Day has reported on US law enforcement authorities’...

As recently as a month ago few could predict the outcome of the conflict between Ukraine and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) about the Ukrainian referendum slated for April...

The very next day after the Ukrainian coast guard boats used weapons for the first time against Turkish poaching schooners on March 22, as a result of which one of them sank, one fisherman was killed...

Vladimir Kalamanov, the new Russian President Putin’s Ombudsman in Chechnya, looked extremely irritated by UN Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson’s statements concerning her visit to Russia’...

Liudmyla Ivanivna thinks the Ukrainian government is trying to kill her. She points out her kitchen window to the 16 floor apartment building next door. It is in darkness. The elevator doesn’t...

Parliament has approved the government action program. One might perhaps say the People’s Deputies had no other alternative in spite of a wide range of choices. That all majority factions would...

We seem to have got off lightly this time with a relatively “mild” resolution passed at the regular session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, although Minister of...

(Continued from The Day № 11, April 4, 2000) Out of these chaotic conditions, the rudiments of a new economic order began to emerge. It was a form of capitalism, but it was a very peculiar one...

Reorganization of collective farms into private businesses has been completed in Ukraine, Deputy Minister for Agricultural Policy Roman Shmidt has announced recently. “The collective system of...

The mercenary’s trade is something completely unaccustomed that has come about in Ukraine following perpetually rising unemployment and our unstable economic situation. Young people who have found no...

Over 200 Chechen refugee children arrived on board a train from Nizrani to Simferopol last Tuesday. Previously, they had been kept inmates of Ingushetia screening camps. Their accommodation at...

Volodymyr BRONNYKOV, president, Enerhoatom National Joint-Stock Energy Company: “There is a government resolution saying in unambiguous terms that the Chornobyl station is to be shut down in 2000...

April 11: 1944. Soviet troops took Kerch in the course of the Crimean offensive operation. 1945. Inmates of the Buchenwald and Dora Nazi concentration camps were liberated. This is now observed...

All of you will face the destiny of Andrei Babitsky is what a fortune-teller prophesied to journalists at the Central Electoral Commission information center on election night. This soothsayer was...