№14, (2005)

Three years ago, on May 23, 2000, Ukraine for the first time openly declared its intention to join NATO. What has happened in the rather complicated intervening period? There was the Prague Summit,...

President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine has conferred the title “Hero of Ukraine” on parliamentarian Levko Lukianenko. According to the presidential press service, the award is in recognition of his...

In one way or another, this story affects over a million Ukrainians. It sounds banal, but it nevertheless true that Ukrainian diabetics are hostage to a conflict that has dragged on for five years....

The 1st International Ukrainian Documentary Film Festival “Contact” began last Sunday. This standard phrase actually contains several new aspects. It is really the first of its kind in Ukraine,...

The laying of the cornerstone of the future Nikitino Zaporozhian Sich memorial on April 16 in the southern Ukrainian city of Nikopol marked the beginning of the Historic Revival program funded by the...

Last Wednesday a Kyiv-based mobile border security unit officially presented some waterborne vehicles and rescue equipment to coast guard and border security servicemen. The Coast Guard Fleet will...

After his visit to Europe, Ukraine’s State Customs Service Chief Volodymyr Skomarovsky decided to extend both hands to big Ukrainian and international business. At least this is what he said during...

If you had a thousand dollars tucked away for a rainy day, last week you ran short of about 300 hryvnias. After the government dealt a series of budgetary blows to small-scale business (ostensibly to...

Figuratively speaking, history is memory boundlessly unfurled. So those who have suffered a temporary or final, disastrous, defeat on the historical battlefield and are keenly aware of this...

Last Friday Myroslava, widow of assassinated journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, appeared before her fellow journalists in the new role of published author. In collaboration with her Radio Liberty...

Efforts to simplify the visa procedure are at the top of the agenda in the Ukraine-EU relationship, a high-ranking European Commission (EC) official told The Day in Brussels. Both Ukraine and the EU...

According to the new budget, the cost of a yearly license for selling alcoholic beverages and tobacco products has increased 2 to 5 times. Licenses for manufacturing these goods are now 5 to 62.5...

“I’m not going to name the newspaper only because this is not the first nor the last instance of this kind” — declared one Kyiv journalist, commenting on the European Court of Human Rights ruling of...

We all use calendars that more often than not omit some important and joyous events concerning people, regardless of their age, social status, or education, and which are thus more important than...

The start of the trial of two police officers accused of killing journalist Heorhiy Gongadze is being delayed by the lack of two key elements: police general Oleksiy Pukach whose whereabouts are...