№16, (2012)
15.03.2012 - 00:00
Thank you, Ukraine!
A year has elapsed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. I would like to pay homage to the victims of this disaster and express my heartfelt gratitude to the government of Ukraine, to all...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
INTERESNI KAZKI paints the grayness in the society
The paintings of the artistic group INTERESNI KAZKI started to appear on Kyiv’s walls several years ago. Strange characters that seemingly froze in a dream, most unexpected combinations of...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
The community is getting ready to defend Peizazhna Alley again
The Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine has cancelled the decision of the Administrative Court of Appeal to ban building in Peizazhna Alley. Thus, the “fairy” garden and alley,...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
So where is the money?
Last week Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych tried to please the fair sex: at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers he shared the government’s impressing social commitments.
We...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
Women must have a choice
The Day received an open letter addressing the leadership of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic and the Roman Catholic Church of Ukraine (full Ukrainian text is on the Gender Museum’s website http...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
“Being a non-aligned country did not influence either the intensity or the quality of cooperation”
A meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Inter-Parliamentary Council took place in Kyiv, at the Verkhovna Rada building on March 14. Assen Agov, Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, is NATO...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
Don’t dump, recycle
On March 1, 2012, The Day carried the feature “Great problems coming from small batteries.” Inadequate legislation, the absence of collection and recycling procedures, lack of...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
MPs were treated to coffee
On March 13, near the Verkhovna Rada waiters treated the MPs to coffee and cakes and asked them to support the bill prohibiting smoking in public eating places. Thus, waiters and representatives of...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
World Cup and Deriuhina’s Anniversary
Tournament in Rhythmic Gymnastics “Deriuhina Cup – Naftohaz 2012” (in the rank of the World Cup) devoted to the anniversary of the Ukraine’s Hero, “mother of rhythmic...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
The return of a pro-Russian premier
Last Saturday the Social Democratic Party Smer-SD headed by former prime minister Robert Fico confidently won the early election to the Slovakian parliament. Having enlisted the support of 44.95...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
Zakharov and Lutkovska on home stretch
Ukraine’s former ombudswoman Nina Korpachova had repeatedly assured media people that most VR factions would help re-elect her before she realized that she had to step down. She did, leaving two...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
Art as memory of an epoch
The Day met Volodymyr Priadka at the 5th all-Ukrainian exhibit Ukraine from Trypillia to this Day in the Pictures of Contemporary Artists. Mr. Priadka’s oeuvre, which includes dozens of...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
Iryna BEKESHKINA: Putin is trying to show Russians he’s a real macho
Iryna Bekeshkina, a sociologist with an immaculate record, heads the Democratic Initiatives Foundation. Her DIF was among the first to start practicing exit polls. Ms. Bekeshkina also has the...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
Opposition’s new agenda
As previously repeatedly stated by The Day, its experts and contributors, Ukrainian society badly needs a quality alternative; that it is important to understand and explain this alternative. In...
15.03.2012 - 00:00
Do no harm!
On March 7, President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine voiced his social initiatives, subsequently described by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov as Ukraine’s “new social policy.” Azarov...