№23, (2001)

The autumnal lowering of temperatures has inspired melancholy in the new owners of privatized oblenerho regional power distribution companies. Entering the crucial stage of preparations for the...

Such is the title of a one-woman show underway at the Children’s Academy of the Arts. The author, noted Kyiv artist Valentyna Chaikovska, says, “Life would be dull and meaningless if we did not...

His pictures are funny, scary, and painfully sad. Some are very small, while others seem purposefully reduced versions of huge frescoes and panels. There is nothing paradoxical about them, and the...

President Kuchma has banned the government from offering tax breaks to individual economic sectors and entities. In his opinion, this could entail considerable budget problems. “I categorically...

Stanley Fischer’s departure as First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF provided an ideal opportunity to re-examine the fund’s Washington Consensus ideology of privatization, liberalization (...

“The weather favored love-making. The pique waistcoats insisted there had been no August like that since the time of free port transactions.” (Ilf and Petrov, The Golden Calf) A phenomenon is...

Mykhailo Shyshliannykov, Krymskaya gazeta correspondent in Saky, and Lilia Budzhurova, chairperson of the Crimean Free Journalists Association, held a press conference in Sevastopol, playing an audio...

Over a month ago Ukraine agreed to suspend supplies of heavy weapons to Macedonia for the duration of peace talks. Almost a month has elapsed since a peaceful settlement plan was signed in the...

The Editors recently played host to Serhiy Kurykin, deputy head of the Green Party, newly appointed Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources. Considering that the previous cabinet had no...

On September 1 all Crimean schoolchildren entered or returned to school. Like the rest of Ukraine, educators there have also switched to a 12-year curriculum, with children starting school at six. On...

Addressing a joint session of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation and the All-Ukrainian Union of Agricultural Entities on September 6, Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh assured the audience the...

Every time Den’/The Day celebrates an anniversary, I like to remember how over five years ago I was given a contract to translate, one with a group of investors called the Ukrainian Press Group, and...

September 11: 1943. The Hryhory Veriovka State Meritorious Academy Ukrainian Folk Choir was founded. 1993. A memorial sign to the victims of the manmade famine of the 1932-33 was unveiled in Kyiv...

Ukraine is again in line for renewal of the EFF (extended financing facility) program: on September 20 the question will be considered at a session of the IMF Council of Directors. Winding up his...

The turnout for Verkhovna Rada’s eighth session was virtually 100%. Moreover, Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh, de jure still a deputy, brought along his complete cabinet team. Although the president’s...