№25, (1999)

By Klara GUDZYK, The Day Vacations. When their times comes people tend to be more sociable and they step into the street the way an actor walks onstage, totally exposed to observations and...

My whole generation has had constantly to reckon with memories of World War II (or the Great Patriotic War as it was known in the USSR). First, my grandfather was killed in action near Moscow...

All Power to Government! President's authority to issue economic edicts expires Appearing on television June 24, President Kuchma declared he can no longer manage Ukraine's economy by...

By Vitaly KNIAZHANSKY, The Day The morning warmup at Verkhovna Rada last Tuesday left one the unpleasant aftertaste of bauxite. Previously, the government resolved to dismiss Vitaly Mieshyn,...

Russia's chief banker Viktor Gerashchenko suggests the law On the National Bank of Ukraine be overruled by the Constitutional Court By Iryna KLYMENKO, The Day   VIKTOR GERASHCHENKO...

The third operating unit of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant was shut down last Wednesday for routine maintenance after a gradual reduction of power output. This year, maintenance is to be...

Agricultural Nomenklatura vs. Free Market Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has signed the decree On Mortgage. Interfax-Ukraine reports the document defines, inter alia, the nature and...

By Klara GUDZYK, The Day World Orthodoxy is preparing for an extraordinary event, a Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church expected to be convened at the start of the third millennium...

By Tetiana POLISHCHUK, The Day On June 30, Zaporizhzhian Cossack beyond the Danube has completed its 131st season at the Ukrainian National Opera Theater. The curtain fell, the applause died...

Dynamo's New Quest for Champion Cup Begins on July 28 Lots were drawn on June 30 in Geneva, Switzerland, for the 1999-2000 soccer League of Champions and UEFA Cup. Our teams will open their...

By Oleksandr HONCHARUK, Petro MARUSENKO, The Day     The last Thursday of every month is a special day at the sport complex of the Kyiv Military Lyceum. If the...

By Oleksandra LAVRYNENKO The brilliantly-laid-out book From the Voice of Our Clio by a well-known writer and scholar of literature Mykhailo Slaboshpytsky, which has been put out by Makhaon-...

By Oleh SYDOR-HIBELYNDA, Art-Line, special to The Day You begin to feel that Kharkiv was Ukraine's capital for about fifteen years not only when you arrive in the city (in the mid-eighties,...

By Ihor SIUNDIUKOV, special to The Day Every nation has the sacred right to take pride in its heroes' great achievements. This is important all the more so in overcoming one's own inferiority...

By Timur FIDAROV, Candidate of Sciences in Technology     Our mass media repeat daily that the government's desperate efforts to improve the people's life are obstructed...