Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№19, (2008)

10.06.2008 - 00:00

Happy birthday, Italy!

A few days ago Italy’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Pietro Giovanni Donnici, hosted a reception at the Philharmonic Society in Kyiv to commemorate the anniversary of the democratic republic of...
10.06.2008 - 00:00

Reclaiming the Motherland

Continued from The Day, no. 18 It was only in 1919, after bitter losses, that the formally sovereign Ukrainian SSR was proclaimed. In December 1919 the 8th conference of the Russian Communist Party (...
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A visit to a pretrial jail

Summer vacations began a few days ago. During the holiday season the number-one problem for parents is how to organize their children’s leisure activities. The police are urging them to send their...
10.06.2008 - 00:00

Gareth Jones back in Ukraine

Eighty-four-year old Margaret Siriol Colley is the niece of the famous journalist Gareth Jones, who revealed the truth about the Ukrainian genocide that was organized by Stalin and his henchmen...
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The Day’s photography competition

The Day ’s ambitious project — its annual photography competition — deserves attention from Ukraine’s government and the general public. At the opening of the newspaper’s photography exhibit in...
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Oleksandr TYMOSHCHUK: "My wife and I attend our son’ s matches holding the Ukrainian flag"

On May 14 soccer fans at the UEFA Cup final watched with rapt attention as Zenit (St. Petersburg, Russia) battled it out with the Glasgow Rangers (Glasgow, Scotland). Zenit’s victory caused...
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2008 literary prize winners named

On June 5, the Ivan Franko National Academy Drama Theater hosted the eight awards ceremony of the Koronatsia slova 2008 all- Ukrainian contest of novels, scripts, and plays. Over the...
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Yenakievo methane gas explosion: worst-ever in Ukraine's mining history

Sunday, 05:00 a.m., June 8, methane gas exploded down the Karl Marx mine shaft in Yenakievo, Donetsk oblast, run by the State Enterprise Ordzhonikidzeenerhovuhillia, at a depth of around one thousand...
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Ukraine becoming less of a terra incognita

On June 5, 2008, the staff of The Day received a wonderful present on Journalists' Day. The Ministry of Education and Science has classified our newspaper's Ukraine Incognita series of books as "...
10.06.2008 - 00:00

This week in history

June 10 1917: With its first Universal, adopted without prior agreement, the Central Rada proclaims Ukraine's autonomy. 1994: Ukraine's Ministry of Justice registers the Ukrainian Student League....
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Natalia Dziubenko-Mace’s marks her birthday

Natalia Dziubenko-Mace, a writer, poet, journalist, and the author of several poetry collections and the well-known novel Andrii Pervozvannyi (St. Andrew-the-First-Called) is celebrating her...
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A lesson in political correctness

For the first time in Ukraine’s history US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, a key member of President George Bush’s economic team and business spokesperson in the US government, paid a visit...
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Why are people predicting a great political future for the mayor of Wroclaw?

WROCLAW — Cracow and Wroclaw are in competition for the title of Poland’s most beautiful city. So far Poles prefer Cracow, which, unlike Wroclaw and Warsaw, escaped the destruction of World War II...
10.06.2008 - 00:00

A whole town made of sand

A new children’s sand town has sprung up on Liberty Square in Kharkiv. This is a 40 x 60 meter playground, which took 2,000 cubic meters of sand from Kharkiv’s quarries for its construction, UNIAN...
10.06.2008 - 00:00

On objectivity

In recent days the Ukrainian and Russian mass media have given wide coverage to the Russian proposal that was approved by the Political Affairs Committee of PACE, the statutory organ of the...

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