№19, (2003)
10.06.2003 - 00:00
This week in history
June 10: 1917. The Ukrainian Central Rada proclaimed in its First Universal the autonomy of Ukraine.
1994. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Ukrainian Students League.
June 11...
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Ahead of Moscow to WTO
Ukraine does not intend to synchronize its WTO entry with that of Russia, First Vice Premier Mykola Azarov said in an interview with the BBC Ukrainian service. Perhaps this marks the end of the...
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Fashion in Ukrainian is Only a Matter of Time
The Day was perhaps the first of Ukrainian media outlets to write about publishing a unique catalog titled Ukraine’s Decorative Art of the Late Twentieth Century: 200 Names. Experts claim that it has...
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A Gap between Education and Employment Opportunities
The Accounting Chamber of Ukraine made public some curious information recently. Audits showed that if young specialists were to be viewed as a commodity, not a production factor, this would indicate...
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Shepherds and Their Flocks Leave for Mountain Pastures
By old tradition, when the spring meets summer, the Hutsuls (Carpathian Mountain highlanders — Ed.) noisily celebrate the beginning of a new work season: they see off shepherds and their flocks to...
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Recognizing the Obvious
The Day met the announcement on awarding our colleague Klara Pylypivna Gudzyk the title of Meritorious Journalist of Ukraine with sincere joy. It is, of course, not just the high award that matters...
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Cossack Mamai on a Shawl
A new exhibition opened at the Obolon Children’s Arts Academy bears a romantic title, Bells of the Apple Trees, a one-woman show by artist Liudmyla Vnuchkova presenting her designs of gowns, scarves...
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Making One’s Own Luck
The five enthusiastic ladies, who founded the Women’s Future Center in Lviv, have always been aware that time and chance will only very rarely help one who does nothing for him/herself. You must...
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Without receiving anything promised them by authorities, people return to their contaminated native land
After the Chornobyl disaster, residents of Obikhody, a village in Zhytomyr oblast, were evacuated and settled in Nemyriv district, Vinnytsia oblast. They named their settlement in Podillia Novi...
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Informally About Major Things
Informal meetings of Ukraine’s head of state with the President of the European Commission seem to have become a tradition. Last May Leonid Kuchma already had an unofficial meeting with Romano Prodi...
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Yes to Four Partners, No to Single Currency
National Bank of Ukraine Governor Serhiy Tihipko considers it necessary to speed up the formation of a single economic space of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, but he is convinced it is too...
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Children Write to God
This is the name of a project recently started at www.maidan.org.ua. Its authors confess that the idea came to them after reading similar book by Stewart Hampley, a collection of funny excerpts from...
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The Holodomor manmade famine is not recognized genocide in its own state
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of one of the most death-filled pages in Ukraine’s history, the terrible Holodomor manmade famine of 1932-1933. This does not mean that before or after it...
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Contest for Vacations
A contest of youth programs has ended in Rivne conducted by the city fathers to select projects designed to organize civilized recreation for the city’s young people. Unfortunately, due to the lack...
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Parliament approves NSDC resolution
Verkhovna Rada approved the dispatch of a Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent as part of the international stabilization forces in Iraq. The vote was 273 ayes and 103 nays, with 417 lawmakers...