№12, (2000)

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...

Along with the Russian and Ita lian schools, specialists rank the Ukrainian symphony school among the best in the world. This is why the cooperation of the Luhansk Symphony Orchestra with its Italian...

As The Day predicted, the legalization of shadow capital has finally got off the ground when President Kuchma signed his March 31 decree On Measures to Legalize the Concealed Incomes of Natural...

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...

We refused to believe that Vitaly Klychko’s loss to American Chris Byrd was not an April Fools’ Day hoax. Unfortunately what had seemed impossible still happened. In the tenth round, owing to a...

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....

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’...

The Japanese Cultural Center officially presented the cultural grant of Yamaha musical instruments for the Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic Society at the Lysenko Hall of Columns in...

The American side could determine that Kharkiv oblast is unprepared for investment projects unless the US initiative is met halfway, a news conference was told by Inna Bohoslovska, deputy chairperson...

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...

First of all, I would like to congratulate Natalia Dziubenko, who has been awarded the Oles Honchar State Prize for the best Ukrainian novel of 1999. Her Apostle Andrew has been reviewed in over 30...

While in other countries publishing is rapidly developing and reforming, Ukraine shows reductions in both the quantitative and qualitative indicators of book printing. The Kharkiv-based Narodna Knyha...

Naftohaz Ukrayiny’s supervisory board held its April 4 meeting in an atmosphere of disguised yet tangible confrontation. Chairman of the Board and Vice Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko assumed the victor’s...

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...

The People’s Artist of Ukraine whose one-woman show is underway at the Art Center Gallery in Kyiv, has been awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize. Marfa Ksenofontovna Tymchenko is...