№18, (2001)

RUSLAN, 33: HE BELIEVED IN GOD AFTER SEVEN YEARS BEHIND BARBED WIRE. IS IT SINCERITY OR A GAME? Passions are running high today in Ukraine on the eve of the visit of Pope John Paul II. The...

June 19: 1925. The world’s first exhibition dedicated to world spaces opened in Kyiv. 1996. An agreement was signed giving Ukraine a second loan for macrofinancial aid from the European Union...

Vira Malunova who hails from Volyn is well known in her native land, even though she has spent most of her years in Lviv as a local television hostess. Several years ago she was one of the first...

On June 15 Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh held his first press conference as head of the government for Ukrainian and foreign journalists in Kyiv. His meeting with Russian Ambassador Viktor...

Kyiv’s ARTEast Gallery at 13 Reitarska Street is in its fourth year. At the turn of the twentieth century, the premises were rented for ballet classes and the Terpsichorean spirit is still there. Now...

Adam Michnik, editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, can be surely called the legend in today’s Poland, a part of its current face. I stress face, not image, for image is an artificial thing that does not always...

Griffin Gallery offers Nadiya Starovoitova’s one-woman show. Although she specializes in fashion design, this time the emphasis is on easel graphics. Her prints are quite unusual. The artist...

Last week Kyiv hosted an international conference, The Experience of Energy Market Reform. It is very symbolic that First Vice Premier Oleh Dubyna and Minister for Fuel and Energy Stanislav...

People’s Democratic Party (NDP) leader Valery Pustovoitenko and his Trudova Ukrayina (Labor Ukraine) opposite number Serhiy Tyhypko have signed an agreement on partnership and mutual cooperation...

The parliamentary majority’s coordinating council decided yesterday to recommend the lawmakers to put on today’s agenda draft resolutions recalling the Verkhovna Rada leadership. Interfax Ukraine...

The third international conference called Clinical Consequences of the Chornobyl Catastrophe: The Conclusions of Fifteen Years of Research has recently drawn to a close. Experts from the CIS, Canada...

Last Thursday the Kiev- Mohyla Academy National University presented a new MBA (Master of Business Administration) syllabus. The syllabus, designed for a six-month training of professionals already...

He was known and admired throughout the world, yet in his home country the name of Vladimir Horowitz was officially forgotten for several decades. Those who emigrated to the West were treated by the...

A squall, sometimes turning into a real tornado, wreaked havoc when it swept across four districts of Zhytomyr oblast on the night of June 11. As Volodymyr Shust, chief expert with the emergencies...

On June 15 the Yavoriv Training Ground saw the beginning of Cossack Express 2001, a joint Ukrainian-British exercise. As The Day was told at the Western Operational Command press center, about 500...