№24, (2006)
18.07.2006 - 00:00
A CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR ROMAN SERBYN
Roman Serbyn was born in 1939 in Vyktoriv, Western Ukraine. In 1948 he and his family settled in Montreal, Canada. In 1960 he obtained a B.A. (Political Science) from McGill University. He...
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CARLOS PASCUAL: Our Ukraine and Party of Regions Coalition my open up interesting horizons for Ukraine
Carlos Pascual was US Ambassador to Ukraine in 2000-03, then he worked as Director, Office for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan at the State Department. Now the ex-ambassador to Ukraine...
18.07.2006 - 00:00
Pinning hopes on a new generation
Our newspaper has now welcomed a “new guard” of journalism interns, including students from Cherkasy Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University, National University of Ostroh Academy, and Zaporizhia...
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Yalta Conference in a new format
Later last week Yalta hosted the third forum of the Yalta European Strategy international network founded three years ago by the well-known businessman Viktor Pinchuk as a place for debating Ukraine’...
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What is left of the Orange Revolution?
Marek Siwiec has first-hand knowledge of Ukrainian politics. During the Orange Revolution in the fall of 2004 he and the then president of Poland, Alexander Kwasniewski, took part in roundtable...
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This week in history
July 18 1946: Ukrainian Youth Association resumes work in immigration. 1968: Zaporizhstal launches a unique hoop rolling mill. July 19 1918: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is founded in Canada. 1995...
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Hutsul paradise
For the fourth year in a row the picturesque Hutsul village of Sheshory (local residents stress the first syllable) hosted the International Festival of Ethnic Music and Land Art. Next to the village...
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Ukrainians are aging
Ukrainian schoolchildren taking part in geography Olympiads were given the following assignment: imagine you are the president of Ukraine and have to put an immediate halt to a demographic explosion...
18.07.2006 - 00:00
Naomi BENAMI: “Ukraine has an overall view of the Middle East question”
In the past few days Israel has been in the spotlight of the world media. What is Israel’s vision of ways to defuse the current tensions in the Middle East and to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian...
18.07.2006 - 00:00
Irina Khakamada’s predictions: “Ukraine will backslide under the Russian scenario”
A phone-in with the well-known Russian opposition leader and public figure Irina KHAKAMADA took place on the eve of the unexpected turn in the political situation in Ukraine — the formation of an “...
18.07.2006 - 00:00
Mission expanded
The European Union is stepping up cooperation with Ukraine and Moldova in upgrading the performance of Ukrainian-Moldovan border checkpoints and customs procedures. Not so long ago, with Kyiv and...
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James SHERR: “The West should not lessen its attention to Ukraine”
James SHERR, Senior Fellow at the Conflict Studies Research Center, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, comments on the impact of the “anti-crisis coalition” agreements on Ukraine’s foreign policy...
18.07.2006 - 00:00
Botanists find a “dinosaur” and bring it to Ukraine
The presentation of the Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis), a gift from the Australian branch of the World Wildlife Fund and one of the most ancient plants on earth, was recently held at the...
18.07.2006 - 00:00
The grandeur of Mykhailo Drahomanov
(Conclusion. For Part One, see The Day, no. 22-23) Back in Kyiv, Drahomanov was convinced that Europeanism that does not reject national forms was the best foundation for Ukrainian autonomist...
18.07.2006 - 00:00
Some self-reflections
The latest developments in Ukraine have forced even those citizens, who steer clear of politics for a variety of reasons, to reflect on politics and politicians. Many of us feel that society was...