№18, (2007)

Nearly two months have passed since Ukraine and Poland won the bid to host the final tournament of the European soccer championship in 2012. Last Friday, the Ministry for Regional Development and...

These days in Polish bookstores you can purchase books by Witold Gombrowicz, Gustav Herling-Grudzinski, and Franz Kafka at a big discount. These books are placed in a special section in bookstores,...

“All nuclear tests and any other nuclear explosions shall be banned” is the key phrase in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that was proposed by the UN General Assembly and opened for...

Iryna Ternavska’s solo exhibit of batiks and paintings has opened at Gallery 36, located on Kyiv’s art strip, Andriivsky uzviz. Ternavska’s world is romantic and somewhat fairytale-like and dreamy....

What do American experts think about Vladimir Putin’s declarations that Russia may aim its missiles at the EU in response to US plans to deploy parts of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense...

In the first half of June Kyiv saw the opening of the Museum of Soviet Occupation. The organizers (first of all, the Vasyl Stus Memorian Society) claim the aim of this is to reproduce a full...

A well-developed mineral and raw-material base is one of the main components of our country’s economy. This especially applies to hydrocarbon raw materials, which are a good indicator of the state’s...

On June 15, 2007, the Verkhovna Rada of the fifth convocation de facto ceased to exist. Deputy Speaker Adam Martyniuk finally announced that 46 MPs from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and Our...

The 11th Golden-Domed Kyiv Festival has ended in Kyiv. Eight concerts took place, five of which were dedicated to the brilliant Ukrainian composer Artemii Vedel whose 240th anniversary we are marking...

The All-Ukraine benevolent TV project “Missing Children Search Service,” which is aimed at reuniting as many street children as possible with their families, is marking its sixth year of service to...

In an article published on June 12, 2007, in The Day, Larysa Ivshyna touched upon the important topic of the current Ukrainian elite or, as Galician intellectuals used to say, the ruling stratum. I...

Every year one child dies while working in the agricultural sector, and 15 children are severely injured. Last year a 16-year-old schoolboy died at the agricultural company Prohres in Vinnytsia...

June 19 1925: Kyiv hosts the world’s first exhibition devoted to global expanses. 1996: Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan sign a friendship and cooperation treaty. June 20 1918: The All-Ukraine Church Council...

In August we would have marked Mykola Shopsha’s 60th birthday. It would have been a very special occasion highlighting one of Ukraine’s outstanding bass singers, a brilliant star and personality...

William Miller, who was the second US ambassador to Ukraine since our country declared its independence, arrived in Kyiv to take part in the international forum “Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future.” He...