№21, (2006)

“If I sign a ban on selling alcohol today, what will our city’s guests think of us?” Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky asked this rhetorical question at a recent meeting of the Kyiv City Administration...

The international Golden Otis Prize for outstanding achievements in surgery has been conferred on the All-Ukraine Association of Pediatric Surgeons. The sad fact remains that even after developing...

British parliamentarians have formed an interparliamentary UK-Ukraine group to facilitate multilateral and informal contacts among British and Ukrainian politicians, including parliamentarians and...

Below James Sherr, fellow of the Conflict Studies Research Centre, UK Defence Academy, shares his views on the Orange Coalition. One can only hope that the newly established coalition will be a...

NATO is giving Ukraine 25 million euros for the destruction of 1.5 million rifles and several thousand tons of ammunition over the next 12 years. The Deutsche Welle’s Ukrainian Service reported that...

Russia is hinting at a likely correction of its foreign policy. The Russian foreign ministry explains the need for corrections by negative trends that have emerged in the world arena in the last...

Poland is preparing its own “counter-summit” to deal with energy questions, in contrast to the G-8 summit scheduled for mid-July in St. Petersburg. The top-level meeting in the northern Russian...

The fifth US Ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst, has completed his diplomatic mission. Shortly before Herbst’s departure, President Viktor Yushchenko awarded him the Order of Merit, 3rd degree....

At long last Yulia Tymoshenko’s bloc, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party of Ukraine have formed a parliamentary coalition. Roman Bezsmertny’s motion to postpone the date of its announcement...

“Ge was a genius”Vladimir Stasov GRANDSON OF A FRENCHMAN, SON OF A UKRAINIAN WOMAN The history of Mykola Ge’s paternal lineage began in France. His great-grandfather, apparently fleeing the...

The true habitat of a constitution is the human heart, not paper. So any constitution should be assessed not by its literary style but exclusively by its ability to make the state provide security,...

Six and a half decades have passed since that infinitely long day of June 22, 1941, which brought terrible news into every Ukrainian home — more terrible than all the plagues-war had begun! Our...

June 27 1834: A university is founded in Kyiv, based on a Faculty of Philosophy with two divisions: history and philology, and physics and mathematics. 2001: The Holy Liturgy, attended by 1.5 million...

Last Wednesday the World Bank sent Viktor Bondar, Minister for Transport and Communications of Ukraine, a report on traffic safety control in our country. The Day has frequently reported on this...

I visited the United States for the second time in April 2006. Whereas in 2003 I had to spend weeks attending a conference and listening to papers given by historians, men of letters, and...