№23, (2005)

Forty-nine percent of Ukrainian citizens believe that Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko must guarantee democratic parliamentary elections in 2006 by refraining from direct participation in them....

No one doubts the need to integrate Ukrainian agriculture into world agrarian production, as evidenced by an international agrarian integration conference recently held in Kyiv. However, attendees...

Toward the end of this week, on July 15, the Economic Court of Kyiv will continue hearing a rather questionable lawsuit brought by the General Prosecutor’s Office. Called to protect the interests of...

We recently learned about the contents of a document drawn up by the “pastoral council” of St. Michael’s Cathedral in Odesa (affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, ROCA). This document...

NATO experts have promised to help Ukraine dispose of ammunition and destroy some surplus and outdated weapons in Novobohdanivka, Zaporizhzhia oblast. The alliance plans to offer Kyiv not only...

On July 11-15 Ukraine is hosting the popular Moldovan band Zdob Si Zdub (“Hit the Drum”), who will make five concert stops along their itinerary: Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kremenchuk, Cherkasy,...

Prior to Constitution Day in Ukraine, Archbishop and Cardinal Lubomyr Huzar, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, kindly agreed to an interview with The Day , in which he focuses on the...

Last week Lesia Gongadze, the mother of slain journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, submitted her fifth blood sample for genetic analysis as part of the investigation into her son’s killing. In the meantime,...

The history of ancient Ukrainian literature has quite a few blank spots that make researchers uneasy but which are used by writers as an inspiring source of new romantic plots and characters. But...

Most of the reasons behind foreign investors’ wary attitude to Ukraine are generally known: use of non-market methods, the reprivatization debates. There is also the proverbial sword of Damocles...

Russia’s split personality — symbolized by its Tsarist coat of arms, a two-headed eagle — has been on open display recently. One minute, President Vladimir Putin’s regime is on a charm offensive,...

The wave of tax reforms has now reached excise taxes. Representatives of the government, the Presidential Secretariat, and other departments, along with a group of businessmen met under the aegis of...

Ukraine has made a firm decision to reduce the state’s role in managing military-industrial complex (MIC) facilities. In principle, this is what experts have been advising for a long time. Yet, the...

Oksana Korobka has submitted her works to numerous Ukrainian and international art exhibits, including “Fall Vernissage,” “Crossroads,” “New,” “Ecology through an Artist’s Eye,” “Christmas Eve,” the...

The exhibition called “Tea-Sets of the 17th-20th Centuries: Style of an Epoch” features the museum’s collections of Ukrainian-made china and faience. “The exhibition’s title is self-explanatory,”...