№26, (2004)

If the presidential elections had been held last Sunday, 69% of those polled by the Kyiv International Sociology Institute (KMIS) and Socis Center would vote, compared to an 84.5% turnout forecast by...

The talks between the Ukrspetsexport state arms sales firm and Nuri Shaveiz, Secretary General of the Iraqi Defense Ministry, during his official visit to Kyiv were held behind closed doors, of...

The second All-Ukraine Youth Pottery Symposium “Chyhyryn ‘04” is now summing up the results. Although it was held on the grounds of the Chyhyryn Historical-Cultural Preserve from June 24 to July 17,...

Speaking at a recent news conference, Ukraine’s Minister for Family, Children, and Youth Valentyna Dovzhenko said that such a forecast is contained in Ukraine’s Demographic Development Concept for...

The parliamentary ad hoc investigative commission seeking the cause of the illness of People’s Deputy and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko has fallen short of expectations. After completing a...

The National Opera of Ukraine played Verdi’s Aida Sunday to mark Chief Choirmaster Lev Venedyktov’s 80th birthday. He has been with the Kyiv Opera for 50 years, taking part in many world classical...

October 12. 1920. Soviet Russia and Ukraine, on the one hand, and Poland on the other signed an agreement on an armistice and preliminary peace conditions in Riga. 1960. Nikita Khrushchev pounded his...

This week Ukraine’s State Property Fund (SPF) invited bids for a 60% stake in the Luhansk- based Krasnovuhillia open join-stock company. Although the shares’ starting price is UAH 705.136 million,...

Addressing a briefing last Friday, Deputy Chief of the Presidential Administration Vasyl Baziv said President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine is calling on this country’s citizens to remain calm and not be...

The mysterious ranking lists that UEFA and the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) regularly publish for national teams and clubs, respectively, are often the objects...

The Day congratulated the special winners of its annual photo contest last Thursday. The jury, made up of 1,173 spectators (the exact number of ballots cast during the exhibit at the Ukrainian Home...

European parliamentarians have positively assessed the technical side of preparations for the presidential elections in Ukraine. “Preparations are going quite well. We don’t have anything negative to...

Last Tuesday Kyiv Orphanage No. 3 welcomed several guests of honor: this year’s Olympic champions Olena Kostevych (air pistol shooting), Yury Bilonoh (shot put), and Yury Nikitin (trampoline). The...

This festival was special in its own way, for it may be considered as a workshop seminar. The program of “Ukrayinski Alternatyvy” [Ukrainian Alternatives], which included screenings of legendary...

Recently the Artek International Children’s Center welcomed the first group of 300 children from Beslan, the North Ossetian town that was shattered by the recent school hostage crisis. Ukraine’s...