№19, (2002)

(Continued from The Day No.14, 15, and 18) Viktor Pavlovich Kochubei (1768-1834) was nephew of the “Most Illustrious Prince” Oleksandr Bezborodko, a powerful dignitary of the time of...

In less than four years, Russia has undergone an astonishing sea change. Macroeconomic stabilization is but the start. Underlying the economy’s rapid recovery is the emergence of a common set of...

Craving undue titles is perhaps inherent in most of those in power in this country. This author has voiced his indignation over the self-styled governors being actually heads of regional state...

“European Choice: Conceptual Foundations of the Strategy of Ukraine’s Economic and Social Development in 2002-2011” is the title of the president’s current message to Verkhovna Rada, the text of...

Ukraine has found itself on the brink of a budget crisis. According to a State Tax Administration report, a mere 75% of projected revenues were collected in taxes in May, with state-run entities...

GRANDMA NADIA AND HER DAIRY OLIGARCH The villagers know Granny Nadia (Nadiya Brunets) as someone who would skip all the household chores to help the local collective farmers sow sugar beets or...

Our permanent contributor, Lutsk-based journalist Natalia Malimon, was recognized the best in her profession in 2001 by the Volyn oblast branch of the National Journalists’ Union of Ukraine. The Day’...

The Ukrainian government seems to have finally opted for an early easing of the tax burden for this country’s citizens. Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh suddenly admitted Friday before last on ICTV...

This year the Sofiya Publishing House issued a book titled Soviet Psychiatry: Delusion and Intention the dedicated to the phenomenon of misuse of psychiatry in the Soviet period. Symbolically, the...

Last Friday a one-man show by Carpathian photo artist, member of the Photo Artists Union of Ukraine, bearer of a honorary title International Photography Artist at the International Photography...

Editors of the Kazkovy Vechir [Fairy Tales Evening] newspaper arranged a magnificent holiday party for children from Ukraine’s regions at the Kyiv House of Clowns situated at the city circus. Three...

The Love Your Symptom exhibition at the Center for the Contemporary Art is dedicated to painting, which is, according to the project’s concept, a phenomenon reborn and an alternative to the invasion...

STARTING ON A GREAT TREK I had long wanted to see how people live in the West. Back home everything was perfectly clear and sickeningly familiar, including habitually grim, sulking faces. Maybe...

The new initiative of the Shevchenko Prize Committee is meant to propagate laureates and their creative attainments worthily representing Ukrainian culture. Also, the concert was announced as a...

Recently I had a unique opportunity to visit a Carmelite convent in Kyiv. This cloistered community is practically closed to the public. Monasticism is an inalienable component of the Orthodox,...