№15, (2004)

Although the Ukrainian peacekeeping force in Iraq is showing what true professionalism is, this does not mean, however, that Ukraine should not seek a political settlement of the situation in Iraq....

April 27. 1906. The first Ukrainian political periodical in the Russian language, Ukrainsky vestnik [Ukrainian Courier], appeared in St. Petersburg. 1995. Verkhovna Rada approved independent...

Prominent Kyiv-based sculptor Svitlana Karunska has put on two personal exhibitions — practically one after the other: My Own Room, held at Mykola’s House, was followed by Capriccio Misterioso at the...

The army of those who suffered from the Chornobyl power plant disaster now comprises over three million people, including more than a million children. It is next to impossible to fully estimate...

I spoke to the manager of a Kyiv hospital and eventually he broached the painful subject of medications, food for the patients, which is supposed to be rich in vitamins, and how the wards were...

April 20 witnessed major compromises achieved in Verkhovna Rada. Three intergovernmental documents addressing Ukrainian-Russian relations were ratified. The first was an agreement on the state...

“As of today, the Ukrainian military are the main contributors to international peacekeeping efforts,” noted Ihor Tymofeyev, Deputy Minister of Defense (right in photo), at a press conference last...

A traditional Ukrainian hairstylist contest was held as part of the Svit Krasy (The World of Beauty) Festival. It served as a dress rehearsal of the world championships in Milan and a qualifier for...

The Ukrainian leadership has long been criticized for their multivectoral foreign policy (otherwise described as having a variety of vectors). After the last week, the impression is that the key...

When actor Bohdan Stupka recently visited The Day, he told a funny story. On the film location in a faraway Russian village, he saw a lush flowerbed next to the only surviving house. He talked to the...

Diplomatically speaking, the Russian Duma acted in an unexpected manner the very next day after ratifying the SES agreement with Ukraine, adopting a message to Verkhovna Rada, expressing concern over...

Thus we still do not and, in all probability, will never know any clear results of the mayoral elections in Mukacheve. In any case, such things as official decisions of the electoral commission,...

When compiling his collection of poetry, Returning to Europe (Warsaw, 1931), Polish writer Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz included in it his translation of Yevhen Malaniuk’s lyrical epistle To Jaroslaw...

Verkhovna Rada’s ratification of the SES agreement inspired those campaigning for the Odesa-Brody reverse mode to resort to new machinations, to prevent light Caspian oil — and Ukraine, as a transit...

SERHIY TULUB Newly appointed Fuel and Energy Minister Serhiy Tulub, who also continues in the position of Enerhoatom president, did not have to wait long for his first news conference. Last...