№25, (1999)

By Vitaly PORTNYKOV,The Day President of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic said the other day that a referendum might be held on the status of this Yugoslav republic. In fact, it is the question of...

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...

Even by post-Soviet standards Boris Berezovsky is considered an especially odious figure. Some time ago Forbes Magazine described how he got where he is by essentially sucking dry the AvtoVAZ auto...

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...

On July 1, The Day 's editorial board summed up in the conference room the results of the Every Day with The Day Lottery. It will be recalled that, according to the rules, readers were to...

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...

Suicide version dubious in view of pressure on station By Anatoly LEMYSH, The Day Maryana Chorna, STB and Society Center Fund analyst, was found hanged in her rented Kyiv apartment on...

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...

One of last week's front-page news stories was the ban on Vadym Rabynovych, Israeli citizen and, according to many politicians, one of Ukraine's most influential oligarchs, from entering...

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 Oleksa PIDLUTSKY, The Day Well-known Russian political scientist Aleksei Kuzmin visited Kyiv recently. The Day's Oleksa PIDLUTSKY interviewed him. We cannot agree completely with 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 Anatoly LEMYSH, The Day On June 30, the opposition newspaper Polityka (Politics) ceased publication after losing a court appeal, editor-in-chief Oleh Liashko announced at a press conference...

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...

By Iryna KLYMENKO, The Day On July 1, commercial banks were authorized, under NBU Board of Governors Resolution No. 265 of June 4, to demand from their clients payment and settlement accounts that...