№22, (2005)

On July 1 the UK took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union from Luxembourg. Although the presidency of a given country cannot radically change the EU’s domestic and foreign...

Ukraine has found itself on the list of European nations with the highest percentage of overweight people. According to data of the Institute for Nutritional Hygiene, 35-36% of Ukrainian men, 41% of...

US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst is known in the journalistic community as arguably one of the most laconic diplomats. The Day’s recent interview with the ambassador, however, has largely...

July 5, 1990. The First World Congress of Spiritual (Saint) Ukraine started in Kolomyia. 1991. Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR passed the law on instituting the post of President of the Ukrainian...

NSDC resolutions task authorities to make Ukraine’s domestic investment climate more attractive than in some of the neighboring countries. NSDC’s recent sitting noted, among other things, that...

On June 31, 250 leaders of Ukrainian youth organizations gathered in Kharkiv for a three-day All-Ukrainian Youth Summit held under UN auspices with the goal of influencing the government’s youth...

Years ago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn coined the phrase “preservation of the people,” by which he meant Russia’s cultural survival. Today, it applies to Russia in a far more literal way. Although I am a...

On June 29 first deputy parliamentary speaker Adam Martyniuk presented awards to representatives of civic organizations, the mass media, public institutions, as well as scholars, doctors, and...

The Jewish community of Donetsk has issued a statement protesting against the activities of so-called fighters against “Zionism” and “imperialism,” who have recently become active in Donetsk oblast....

The first half of the year of Our Ukraine’s European and Euro-Atlantic activities has ended in a massive diplomatic offensive aimed at France and held at the highest political level; also, in the...

The reasons why the Russian uniformed services released Ihor Bakay, the wanted former chief of Ukraine’s state property management authority under President Kuchma, from custody remain unknown. This...

Soon the events of late 2004-early 2005 will become part of history and the subject of reminiscences, legends, tall stories, and exaggerations (or the contrary). Even their direct participants, like...

Global competition makes it imperative that all countries, as actual participants in the international political process, or those that claim this status, meet certain qualitative criteria. Failure...

It took a long time to elect the new head of the Crimean government. After weeks of deliberations this post is now occupied by Anatoliy Matviyenko, a Komsomol Young Communist League functionary in...

Kyivans will be offered a referendum Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Premier for Humanitarian Matters, recently made another sensational statement to the effect that construction in Kyiv must be approved by a...