№12, (2012)

Media had a field day commenting on Russia’s Speaker Sergei Naryshkin’s official visit to Kyiv, focusing on Ukraine’s domestic political struggle aggravated by pressure from Moscow. Naryshkin had...

Andrii KLYMENKO, head of the Tavriisky Institute for Regional Development (Yalta), editor-in-chief of the web portal blackseanews.net:“As for me, one of the positive things of this period is that it...

On the eve of Russian elections, the RF Election Committee publicized the so-called list of authorized delegates of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. The list includes even the names of famous...

Happy holiday, the International Mother Language Day! Chairman of the State Television and Radio Committee of Ukraine Oleksandr Kurdinovych and Minister of Culture Mykhailo Kulyniak appealed to the...

1927: The Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR passes a decree on aid to itinerant Gypsies wishing to adopt a “settled working lifestyle.” 1944: The State Defense Committee of the USSR resolves to rebuild...

On February 21 His Beatitude Sviatoslav (SHEVCHUK) was The Day’s guest. We couldn’t not help asking him about his opinion on what is happening in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, fully...

In developed countries for several decades preserving human potential, as well as improving the quality of duration of life have been the priorities of state development. In Ukraine there is constant...

Recently the opposition MPs expressed their willingness to talk to the president “not as politicians but as… men.” Vice-speaker Mykola Tomenko announced from the parliament rostrum that the members...

2012 is rich in dates and events that commemorate Ukraine-NATO relations, above all the 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s first contact with the North Atlantic Alliance. January 22-23, 1992, NATO...

Strange things began to happen after the health of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Celebrant of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, had become worse. To be more precise, during the last two meetings...

Well before Josyf Slipyj was deported to Siberia, Andrei Sheptytsky had nominated him as his coadjutor. NKVD investigators called him “Citizen Sliepoi” and his cellmates “professor,” for he preserved...

Not so long ago the Verkhovna Rada endorsed the bill No. 8795 “On the handling of spent nuclear fuel, placement, design, and construction of a centralized repository for spent nuclear fuel from WWER...

Concert of the Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy was held at the Palace of Sports on February, 18. Rock musicians, who were recently recognized as the best band in the past 20 years as a part of the ...

Pawel Kowal, Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament, has been frequently visiting Ukraine. The aim of his recent visit was to attend a meeting...

The World Bank (WB) hinted in a report last week that the IFC annual investment plan money might become Ukraine’s only source of international loans. Washington is allegedly “tired...