№16, (2002)

HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN? This broad and eventually tragic resettlement was carried out by the USSR leadership and the then pro- Communist government of Poland. As Polish-Ukrainian resettlements also...

The fourth parliament of independent Ukraine is at work. Already the first plenary sessions are evidence that political rather than legislative issues come first, and that there are more such...

On May 15 the fifth and final round of the international seminar, Anticorruption Studies and Preventive Strategy, began in Kyiv. Among its participants are distinguished law enforcement officials...

“What steps will you as minister of justice take first in order to, say, reform this country’s judiciary? As we know, the so-called little judicial reform has already been carried out. Are you going...

Civil society, law, morals — are these economic categories? Is economic efficiency dependent on the types of political ideologies dominant in a society? What does an ideal model of Ukrainian...

Larysa Ivshyna (Zhalovaha) says she has long wanted to offer some help to her old school which still evokes so many pleasant memories, “Our school was famous for having superb teachers...” Later,...

I remember Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh saying on the eve of the elections that the VAT is a tax that destroys the economy and then reiterating in a Day interview that this opinion would be...

Young Ukrainians want to be rich, and to make their dreams come true they are eager to start their own businesses. Talking to a 30 year-old owner of a private beauty shop, I tried to find out how...

On May 16 the Imperial Ballet’s Dreams of Love opened the fourth international theatrical festival of twinned cities Kyiv in May. Even now it is safe to assume that the festival in its current...

An interesting meeting took place at The Day’s editorial office. Our guest was a colleague from Russia, Yekaterina VARKAN, managing editor of the NG-ekspres supplement to Nezavisimaya gazeta. The...

Ninety percent of modern parents are perfectly decent people, pursuing the sole objective of raising their children as healthy and happy individuals. Aware of this and proudly counting myself in that...

An unusual museum where visitors were allowed to try on some clothes their ancestors once wore and eat from their plates was established in Vinnytsia. There you could also test yourself as a folk...

WAY OF THE CROSS If a child can read at the age of three and a half, his parents have ample grounds to claim that God has endowed him with extraordinary abilities. Such abilities can either...

May 12 saw the now traditional Day of Remembrance of Victims of the Communist Regime marked in the forest of Bykivnia in a Kyiv suburb. Why in Bykivnia? The truth about the mass burial site in this...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense have ruled out the possibility of Ukraine having supplied arms to former Yugoslavia states in 1994, in violation of UN sanctions....