№22, (2005)

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...

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...

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...

Sometimes a short stroll or a casual purchase creates a history of sorts, which then becomes part of your life. In my May 11 column I wrote about an exhibition-cum-fair that was held next to my house...

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...

The 6th International Congress of Ukrainian Studies was held at the National University of Donetsk under the auspices of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies, the Ukrainian National...

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...

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...

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...

The outstanding public figure and writer Natalia Kobrynska was born on June 8, 1855, in the village of Beleluyi, Sniatyn district, in what is now Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. No one in Rev. Ozarkevych’s...

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....

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...

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...

There is a talented young woman enrolled in the Peter Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. After graduating as a pianist, she did a postgraduate course in composition under the noted Ukrainian composer...

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...