№19, (2005)

The world-famous financier and philanthropist George Soros, who is also the founder and president of the Open Society Institute, recently paid a visit to Kyiv. Widely believed to have funded the...

Tomorrow the Ukrainian national will have perhaps the most important meet with the Greek national team in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers. This match on the European champion’s home turf may well...

The launch of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline has breathed new life into the already declining international contacts of oil and gas transportation experts. Ukraine now has an opportunity to join this...

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” This quote from Edmund Burke begins and ends the book Plan of this Country’s Development, which was presented last Thursday...

Last Monday, June 6, Ukraine marked the Day of the Journalist, which was instituted by presidential decree as long ago as May 1994. On the eve of this professional holiday, The Day invited some of...

June 7, 1919. The Chortkiv offensive operation of the Ukrainian Galician Army began. 1993. The International Committee for Economic Reforms and Cooperation, a non-governmental organization, was...

On May 27 the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine hosted a ceremony in Kyiv to award the 2005 Dmytro Nytchenko Prize to this year’s winners, among them The Day’s editor-in-chief Larysa Ivshyna;...

Last Thursday’s election of the parliamentary vice-speaker was declared invalid because only 255 MPs voted, while the rules require at least 300 secret ballots. Although this election had been...

The closer the 2006 parliamentary elections, the more actively the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU), a governmental coalition member, is straying from the “party line.” This kind of behavior seems...

The opening session of the revamped National UNESCO Commission revealed that the precarious condition of the Kyivan Cave Monastery (Pecherska Lavra) may force UNESCO to remove this architectural...

When Sviatoslav Piskun was reinstated as Prosecutor-General, the position from which he was dismissed in 2003, he reestablished the department tasked with combating criminal money laundering. The...

The recent master class by The Day’s Chief Editor Larysa Ivshyna at the Journalism Institute of the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, held as part of the traditional “Spring of...

On the last weekend of May many European countries finished their national championships that determined the contestants for the most prestigious club tournament, the UEFA Champions League. The...

On May 28 Yalta hosted a second session of the GUAM Parliamentary Assembly. Even though the organization has lost one member, Uzbekistan, which is reflected in the name change from GUUAM to GUAM, the...

Old habits die hard. Despite their absurdity, the daily rituals and details of urban landscapes are so routine for city dwellers that they become engrained. The opposite is also true: things that are...