№22, (2008)

In 1933 Mendel Khataevich, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik), declared that “a bitter struggle is being waged between the peasants and our government....

Because of the excessive costs connected to holding elections, as well as the electorate’s bribability and its foolishness, which verges on indifference, today many Ukrainian citizens think that...

Another wave of immigration is taking place in the world, and Ukraine is close to it, if not smack in its very epicenter. The sociological firm Research and Branding says that Ukraine’s neighbor,...

Last week a despicable incident, taken straight from the “finer” pages of the history of the Soviet era, took place in Kharkiv. A group of so-called communists smashed the plaque commemorating Josyf...

While the Ukrainian government pompously holds forth on effective interaction between state and business, Kyiv businesspeople have once again been plunged into an eddy of discontent. This time the...

Kyiv has once again celebrated Ivan Kupalo Day. The eve of St. John the Baptist is one of the most popular of Ukraine’s pre-Christian feasts. A dramatized folklore extravaganza was staged in Kyiv’s...

France took over the European Union’s presidency from Slovenia on July 1, 2008. For the next six months this country will be playing its own diplomatic cards in the EU game. France has now proposed a...

The books published by The Day inspire one to reflect on Ukraine’s present and future, and on the crucial periods of our history. For the past six years the newspaper’s Library Series has been...

Whenever I ventured into unfamiliar districts and saw grim buildings surrounded by high walls topped with barbed wire, I always assumed they were penitentiaries. Now I know that they are either...

Most Ukrainians don’t have any of the products from the Opishnia school of pottery in their kitchens. This is no surprise. After the Soviet Union collapsed, pottery stopped being mass-produced and...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (PA OSCE) proposed to acknowledge the fact of famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine in a resolution last week. The...

Between 1987 and 1990 Dr. Igor Chubais was one of the most conspicuous figures in the Moscow-based “unofficial” associations Perestroika and Perestroika-88. He was the founding member of the CPSU’...

Ukraine recently marked Children’s Day and practically all political figures and statesmen visited children’s institutions. At present, there are some 103,000 orphans and children denied parental...

Starting in 2003, Vasyl Virastiuk, the Ukrainian holder of the 2004 World’s Strongest Man title, has been organizing strongman competitions in Vinnytsia, Donetsk, Lviv, Uzhhorod, Kharkiv, and Odesa....

Without a doubt, July 11 was the day of Yulia Tymoshenko’s triumph. She took a risk and won. The plan known as “Yulia until July” suffered a shattering defeat. That day the atmosphere in the...