№18, (1999)

  By Lesia TRUBENKO, Hennady ONYSHCHENKO     THE ECHO OF CENTURIES There is the old city of Chernivtsi on the banks of the surging Prut River. According to...

NDP leader Anatoly Matviyenko published an open letter to the President last Tuesday (after handing the letter to Mr. Kuchma the previous day). In the first place, the message reminds the...

President Boris Yeltsin made one of the most crucial decisions of his political career, dismissing Premier Yevgeny Primakov and appointing Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin (only...

We Know the Price of Power, It Knows The Price of the Press The Day has asked some of Ukraine's leading journalists the following questions: 1. Is it fair that the US Committee to Protect...

In May, Ukraine will hold the last certificate-selling auction, which will signify the end of paper privatization resulting in there being about 33 million (over 60% of the population)...

Turkmen-Ukrainian natural gas divorce case By Vitaly KNIAZHANSKY, The Day Chairman of Naftohaz Ukrayiny (Oil & Gas of Ukraine) Ihor Bakai and Minister of Foreign Economic Relations...

By Yana MOISEYENKOVA, The Day Theoretically, privatization at Mykolayiv Alumina Plant was stopped on May 13. A week earlier, after a small battle between groups defending different interests...

Paradoxical Shortsightedness IMF plays by the rules of bureaucratic lobbying Alex Sundakov, former IMF representative to Ukraine, commenting on the country's economy in an interview with...

By Olha ZOSYM This musical forum, one of the most important in Ukraine, first took place in 1995 thanks to the initiative of teachers at Kyiv's Reinhold Gliere State Musical School, where the...

By Klara GUDZYK, The Day After almost a 10-year break I met my old friends, a Donetsk couple. We remembered our common acquaintances ("Some are gone; others are far away") and the times when "we...

Dynamo Champion!? Sadly, Ukraine's knights of the soccer field will not witness a fierce struggle for the championship. Donetsk Shakhtar, which changed coaches at the end of the second round,...

By Oleksandr HONCHARUK, The Day On May 22 the Ukrainian capital will host the championship of Europe in such a spectacular, and very popular among young people, sport as Kiokushinkai karate. The...

By Oleksandr HONCHARUK, The Day A great success was achieved at the Eurorean championship by the Ukrainian free-style wrestling team which finished first for the second year running,...

The Day's information The Dumka Ukrainian national choir will mark its eightieth anniversary on May 19 at the National Philharmonic Society. This concert, as well as every performance of the...

By Olena YAHODOVSKA, art critic An exhibition of works by sculptor Anatoly Valiyev opened last Thursday at the Soviart gallery. His sculptures combine the dignity and completeness of the...