№20, (2007)

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over a million people worldwide are killed in traffic accidents every year. Experts offer disheartening forecasts: unless the situation improves, the...

The Museum of the Soviet Occupation, which opened in Kyiv in the first half of June, sparked a furor in society. In its 19 June 2007 issue The Day carried an article by the historian Yurii...

On July 6-8 Kyiv’s Spivoche pole (Singing Field) hosted the 4th international ethnic festical Kraina mrii, or Dreamland, initiated by the charismatic Oleh Skrypka. This year’s Dreamland occupies a...

Adrian SEVERIN, a member of the European Parliament, is the chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He often visits Ukraine and firmly believes that our...

Carlos Pascual, vice-president and director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and former US ambassador to Ukraine, is now dealing with energy issues and closely...

Last Thursday Mykola ZHULYNSKY, chairman of the National Council for Culture and Spirituality under the President of Ukraine, Vitalii ZHURAVSKY, deputy chairman of the Kyiv City Administration, and...

July 10 1968: The Maksym Rylsky Literary Museum opens in Kyiv. 1994: Leonid Kuchma is elected president of Ukraine in a second round of elections. July 11 1925: The Ukrainian National Democratic...

Starting on July 15, 2007, Ukraine will see the beginning of entrance exams to higher educational institutions, a tense time for applicants, parents, and teachers. Unfortunately, higher education...

No one hates the arts as much as our Ukrainian bureaucrats, who demonstrate their negative attitude on every occasion. Right now they are homing in on Andriivsky uzviz in Kyiv. Artists who have had...

On Thursday 10 parties signed the Declaration of the Unification of Democratic Forces, which is in fact an electoral bloc, Interfax-Ukraine reports, citing the press service of Our Ukraine. The...

The level of politicization among children and teenagers has reached unseen proportions. This is confirmed by sociological data produced by the Kyiv-based Horshenin Institute for Management...

You could hear nothing but the sound of hammers in front of the Podil Raion Council. A few people were nailing photos of paintings by well-known Ukrainian artists to the pavement, and a girl was...

Mykola Azarov, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Ukraine, is satisfied with the nation’s tax collectors whose performance he praised in his speech dedicated to their professional...

The first international young potters festival was organized in Opishnia (Poltava oblast) by Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the specialized state art boarding school Art Collegium of...

The 16th annual Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe was called to order in Kyiv on July 5. This forum, a first-time event in Ukraine’s capital, lasted...