Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№12, (2006)

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Chornobyl: a Look from the 21st Century

We are approaching the 20th anniversary of Chornobyl, one of the most horrible disasters in the history of Ukraine and all mankind. The Day is also making a humanitarian contribution by publishing...
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We’re consuming more than earning

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...
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Pope St. Martin I

In April both Catholic and Orthodox Christians honor the memory of Pope Martin, who lived in the 7th century. Born in Tuscany, Italy, he received an excellent lay and religious education, and later...
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Bureaucrats are slow here

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...
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Athletes to do construction work

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...
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Post-election chessboard

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...
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The best token of friendship

On April 6 Mutsuo Mabuchi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine, solemnly presented certificates for modern diagnostic equipment to Liudmyla Bondarenko, the head of the...
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Without “Icarus”

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...
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Journeys through paintings

Oleh Stukalkov’s one-man show, now on display at the Ukrainian Culture Fund, features landscapes. The artist is also a monumentalist, the author of books on architecture, a designer, and an architect...
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This week in history

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...
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Play, musician!

Vinnytsia knows Oleksandr Honchar not by name but by his music. He plays his bayan button accordion on the street. His favorite place of all is a streetcar stop downtown. People are rushing off to...
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“Why?”

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...
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<I>The Day</I>’s book inspires further study of Chornobyl journalism

Last week a group of students from the Faculty of Journalism at Zaporizhia National University, which is known for its progressive initiatives, visited the exclusion zone, the area surrounding the...
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A saint’s achievement

Three hundred years ago, in September-October 1705, the Kyivan Cave Monastery published the fourth and final part of the book Chet’ Menaion by Metropolitan of Rostov Dymytrii Tuptalo. This champion...
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Encouragement of sorts

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...

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