№16, (2003)

Before everything else, the NBU sees no other option than to put on the auction block the Ukrayina banking complex. Tihipko claims that further lease of the bank property is forbidden by law. But...

This feature starts a series debating the teaching standard at Ukrainian schools in general and the instruction of literature in particular. Prof. Vira Aheyeva offers her views, which we believe...

The national revival, now underway in Ukraine and many other states of the modern world, cannot be reduced to a simple restoration of the cultural heritage of past epochs. It requires a special...

Ukrainians tend to look with apprehension on EU enlargement, fearing the possibility of a new iron curtain descending along Europe’s eastern border. Hungary’s accession to the EU in 2004 will most...

My colleague Serhiy Makhun writes in the article “Archoligarch Count Mikhail Vorontsov” (The Day, April 22, 2003, No. 14), “Contemporaries called Vorontsova ‘one of the most attractive women of our...

The recent visit by Russia’s Foreign Minister Ihor Ivanov to Bucharest resulted in an arrangement for the future visit by Romania’s President Ion Iliescu to Moscow. However, it will not be a pleasure...

For starters, in order to create at least a semblance of a polemic I will stress a single point on which I could argue with Prof. Aheyeva. This is in fact a trifle, perhaps even a personal thing....

Ukraine took another step toward Europe last Saturday, adjusting its sizable calendar of holidays to one practiced by EU countries, introducing in it the Day of Europe. Its premiere was unexpected...

(Concluded from the previous issue) There is yet another catastrophe, the ecological. There is perhaps no country that has not sustained its own environmental catastrophes, but our Chornobyl is...

This event in Ukraine’s ecological life is slated to take place in the next few days. It has been discussed throughout the year. The organizing committee documents read that the Fifth Pan-European...

Every second Sunday of May the all-Ukrainian Memorial Society holds Commemoration Days for Victims of the Totalitarian Regime. It is hardly necessary to explain to any Ukrainians why the Bykivnia...

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Yevhen Marchuk believes that in order to enter NATO Ukraine must traverse a “quite complicated path of internal consolidation,” he stated on...

On the eve of the First International Valery Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament, the Kyiv Dynamo Stadium, renamed in his honor last May, witnessed the unveiling of a sculptural composition with the coach...

On May 15 Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution, On an Address to the Ukrainian People from the Participants of the Verkhovna Rada Special Meeting to Commemorate Victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor,...

This time The Day’s guest is His Eminence Archbishop Grigoris Buniatian, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Ecumenical Church. Compared to Eastern Orthodox, Greek Catholic adherents, or...