№25, (2001)

On September 21, Afghani shopkeepers in a Khmelnytsky retail store in Khmelnytsky’s marketplace told The Day’s correspondent they were waiting with alarm and hope for their near and dear “already on...

“ The problems connected with monopolies are of interest to all Ukrainians,” First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Fuel and Electricity Complex, Nuclear Policy, and Nuclear...

Viktor Korol, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada interim committee of inquiry into the bankruptcy of commercial Bank Ukrayina, read his progress report on September 19 to a dead silent parliamentary...

The Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) is drawing the attention of people’s deputies to the necessity of drafting and implementing “urgent measures to protect public morality and conscience...

Many people interpret the events of September 11 as the beginning of World War III, a hitherto unthinkable total confrontation of the two Western and Eastern Muslim worlds and civilizations. In any...

On September 12 Berlin witnessed a ceremony commemorating the tenth anniversary of Ukrainian independence. That day Germany in mourning for the victims of the terrorist attack in America and the...

The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has authorized a new $377 million loan installment to Ukraine. That very same day the World Bank issued the $250 million First...

It is symbolic that the German and Israeli ambassadors will come together to commemorate Babyn Yar, the graveyard of this city’s Jewish community and others. The nation that committed the Holocaust...

The most unexpected news in this country’s economic life last week was Verkhovna Rada’s refusal to ban on shadow privatization. As few as 165 deputies voted to suspend the sale of state-run...

Russia’s proposal to reduce Ukrainian natural gas exports to third countries is “discriminatory” against the Ukrainian state, Vadym Kopylov, Naftohaz Ukrayiny chairman of the board, told journalists...

The Chornobyl nuclear power unit exploded on April 26, 1986. The next couple of days people in Kyiv listened to the radio, watched television, then came May 1 and brainwashed demonstrators shouted...

After the World Trade Center rubble had almost buried faith in a stable dollar, the greenback took yet another blow. Although the European Central Bank intervened in the stock market immediately...

On September 20 Verkhovna Rada passed bills at a remarkable pace, among them the amended law on the State Property Fund of Ukraine. Now it is accountable to Verkhovna Rada and to the cabinet in...

The projected UAH 4.4 billion allocated in funding for Ukraine’s Armed Forces in 2002 is insufficient, Verkhovna Rada Committee for National Security and Defense Chairman Borys Andresiuk believes....

September 25: 1921. A member of the Ukrainian Military Organization made an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Poland’s Marshal Jozef Pilsudski. 1986. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet...