№24, (2005)

It is common knowledge that the world’s largest art museums are situated in former imperial or royal palaces. This is completely logical. Where else, for example, could works like the beautiful...

In the last while there have been frequent statements that Ukraine’s probable refusal to form the Single Economic Space (SES) will not impede the integration process within the limits of the “SES...

On July 14 France celebrates one of its most important holidays, Bastille Day. The fall of the Bastille 216 years ago marked the beginning of the French Revolution. The storming of the prison-...

Two-thirds (66%) of respondents to a poll conducted by the Socium Expert- Analytical Center intend to expand their businesses in Ukraine, and only 4% will shrink them. If these statistics correspond...

It was to be expected. The public altercation between the prime minister and the parliamentary speaker over “who is to blame for the dismal results of relations between the government and parliament...

Among the Soviet military commanders in World War II there were few, if any, tsarist officers who joined Soviet Russia’s army in the wake of the October coup. It is commonly believed that officers...

July 19, 1918. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was created in Canada. 1995. The National Bank of Ukraine issued a commemorative coin “Bohdan Khmelnytsky” at face value 200,000 karbovanets,...

What the Russians did last Thursday they never even permitted themselves during the notorious “Tuzla crisis.” Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement underlining that the legal status...

Vadym Hetman, the former head of the National Bank of Ukraine, would have turned 70 on July 12. This distinguished banker, Member of Parliament, and committee head at the Ukrainian Inter-Banking...

In an interview with Associated Press that was published in late June Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine commented on the stand taken by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow...

The Ukrainian government did not want parliament to pass all of the government-proposed WTO bills to begin with. This paradoxical statement partly explains the confrontation between the government...

Last Friday Viktor Yushchenko made a second visit to Donetsk since becoming head of state. He honored the memory of coal miners, laying flowers at St. Barbara’s Chapel, the monument to miners who...

The mother and the widow of the late journalist are perhaps the most interested parties in the Gongadze case because they want a full-scale investigation. In an interview with The Day Lesia Gongadze...

The first lightning bolt struck Troyeshchyna, a sprawling residential neighborhood of Kyiv, close to midnight. The night owl that I am, I saw them clearly: distant lilac-colored flashes shooting from...

There was an attempt to disrupt the meeting between Ukraine’s General Prosecutor Sviatoslav Piskun and former presidential security officer Major Mykola Melnychenko on American soil. This is the...