№12, (2006)

After helping a woman give birth to her baby in a village home lit only by an oil lamp, with the other children watching from the stove-bench (and this is in the comparatively well-to-do Lutsk...

For a week dancers and choreographers from 15 countries vied during the 6 th Lifar International Ballet Competition. On Sunday the jury led by the noted choreographer Yuri Grigorovich passed their...

In 2007 Ukraine’s state budget deficit will match or even surpass this year’s, First Deputy Finance Minister Viktor Kalnyk told a press conference. Allowing for all duly approved proposals concerning...

In order to draw public attention to the aftereffects of the Chornobyl disaster and illustrate the current status of the exclusion zone, graduates of National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy have...

Kyiv will host the eighth International Book Fair on April 13-16. Among the organizers are the European Science Fiction Society, Ukrainian Association of Book Publishers and Distributors, Science...

If a string of comments on the resolution the European Parliament passed the other day is anything to go by, Ukraine and the European Union have made a breakthrough in their relations. Yet the...

April 11, 1944. In the course of the Crimean Operation Kerch was liberated from enemy. 1995. The Council of Directors of the World Bank passed a decision on allotting a $114 million preferential loan...

There is a saying: if the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad will go to the mountain. The same thing is happening with foreign investments in Ukraine. Since foreign investors still...

Spring is not just the season for romance. A lot of mundane problems must be resolved after the long winter. Among other things, the melting snow reveals piles of garbage that have to be removed on...

“How Ukraine and its history are perceived in the world depends on your efforts,” said Anne Applebaum during a recent visit to The Day. The distinguished journalist, civic activist, and member of the...

Listening to the fevered commentary that greeted the two most recent East European elections, you’d think the Soviet Union had risen from the dead. In both Belarus and Ukraine, the pundits fretted,...

On 12 August 1995 the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and its supporters unveiled a trilingual bronze plaque and installed a statue of an internee near the base of Castle Mountain, in...

Of all the territories that were once part of the Polish state, Ukraine appears to be the only one that had an elite whose political culture remained on a medieval level. In those times, which were...

China is about to adopt its 11th five-year plan, setting the stage for the continuation of probably the most remarkable economic transformation in history, while improving the well-being of almost a...

April is the month of the nationwide project “Sports Are Everyone’s Concern.” Between April 1 and 30 nearly 20,000 sports grounds will be tidied up all over Ukraine. At a press conference on April 3...