№23, (2007)

Over 470 civic organizations recently united at the Public Assembly of Ukraine to ensure that events take a better course in the state. Experts have differing views on the role of a civil society. A...

Five thousand years ago the Chechens used to grow 11 varieties of cereals on the territory of present-day Ukraine. You can draw a conclusion like this after hearing a small fragment of the excursion...

We often get the impression that people not only have a poor knowledge of ancient history but are quickly forgetting even recent events. Oleksandr Yeliashkevych, a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the...

Ivan Mazepa belongs to the constellation of unique individuals who created the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian spirit. Arguably the most famous Ukrainian hetman (according to folk wisdom, “From...

The Day is launching a new column called “Our Country through the Eyes of Foreigners.” We have asked all the ambassadors to Ukraine, as well as foreign politicians and experts, to answer the...

Reinhard Schaefers, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine, is the featured guest of our column “Our Country through the Eyes of Foreigners.” We...

July 31 1924: The Polish government bans the use of the Ukrainian language in government institutions of Eastern Halychyna. 1996: Ukraine generates an interministerial database on drug trafficking,...

We have come to accept the idiotic saying that rules exist to be broken. Unfortunately, in Ukraine traffic rules and other regulations that both pedestrians and drivers need to follow are broken by...

A new art gallery has been opened by the notable Kyiv-based art specialist Oleksii Tytarenko and gallery owner Sandro Mudzhyri. Both of these men are art connoisseurs and well known in artistic...

Already five years have passed since the tragedy at the Sknyliv aerodrome. Nothing has been forgotten, nor can it be. The Sknyliv tragedy was the worst accident in the history of air shows. Five...

In spite of the complex historical relations between Ukrainians and Poles, Poland is now one of Ukraine’s closest partners. So it is alarming to note that Europe has been taking rather a dim view of...

Volodymyr Ohryzko, Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, has mixed impressions from the visa situation that has arisen between Ukraine and the European Union. He said this at a media...

Recently, a small event caused a major stir in Russian politics. An aide to President Vladimir Putin, Igor Shuvalov, said that it was realistic to expect the appearance of a new person whom Putin...

“Political parties, movements, and leaders must take business interests into account. If a government adopts anti-market decisions, the country goes downhill in terms of economy,” Dmytro Shvets,...

For the past month The Day has been unraveling the detective story- like events taking place on Andriivsky uzviz, where artists are being evicted from their studios. Yevhen Karas, the owner of the...