№2, (2006)

Everyone who has studied ancient history remembers the 300 Spartan heroes, who died in 480 BC in Thermopylae Gorge but stopped the advance of the Persian invaders. In critically reconsidering...

The Ukrainian court system continues to work against itself by constantly issuing rulings that undermine citizens’ trust in courts and judges, since the latter obviously do not follow the law so much...

Charles de Montesquieu, the French philosopher and man of letters of the Age of Enlightenment, died 250 years ago. All his reflections and books were dedicated to an analysis of existing laws, the...

January 31 1920. The first Ukrainian Communist newspaper in the US Ukrayinski Shchodenni Visti (Ukrainian Daily News) started its publication in New York. 1966. The Council of Ministers of USSR...

For most of the last century, political realities kept Ukraine and Sweden apart. But my visit to Kiev last week served as a reminder of the numerous things that keep us together. Our two countries...

This phenomenon poses a threat to Ukraine, says political scientist Valentyna HOSHOVSKA, who heads the Center for Prospective Social Research at the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and the...

A total of 46.5 million hryvnias will be allocated for the restoration and rehabilitation of the historical and cultural preserve “Sophia Kyivska” in 2006, reports www.for-ua.com, citing the press...

Serhiy Tulub’s office is equipped with a voltage frequency meter, the kind that he had while serving as fuel and energy minister and later as chairman of Enerhoatom. I look at the meter readings: 50...

The Kyivans gave seven performances of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty on the stage of one of Italy’s most celebrated theaters — Teatro Carlo Felice, hallowed by several premieres of Verdi and...

The Turino 2006 Winter Olympics are less than two weeks away. Everyone is getting ready for the games: from athletes, government officials, and journalists to the National Olympic Committee (NOC)...

The 2006 elections may be the last ones in which the “Russian factor” will play an important role. This is the conclusion of experts at the Situation Modeling Agency (AMS) who analyzed the attitudes...

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University has a museum devoted entirely to Ukrainian embroidered towels known as rushnyks. We were invited to explore this one-of-a-kind museum when we were...

The undeniable answer is: truth. The life story of The Day’s interview subject Yevhen MARCHUK, leader of the Party of Freedom and the Yevhen Marchuk-Unity election bloc, provides additional answers...

On Jan. 20-22 Kyiv’s Ukrainian House hosted the first Korona Chocolate Festival organized by Kraft Foods Ukraine, owner of the Korona trade mark. The organizers say that similar events pull crowds in...

Former State Security Major Mykola Melnychenko’s second press conference since his return to Ukraine took place in the committee room of the Verkhovna Rada. Unlike the first press conference, this...