№26, (2004)

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,...

Kyiv is hosting an exhibit called Proshchavai, Zbroye (Farewell to Arms), organized by Viktor Pinchuk’s Ukrainian Contemporary Art Charity Fund. The project marks a new stage in implementing Mr....

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...

The alignment of forces supporting one candidate or another has already taken shape in the Crimea. While the Slavic Council of the Crimea, recently recreated on the basis of the Crimean branches of...

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...

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...

September 29, 2004, marks the centenary of Nikolai Ostrovsky. If the Soviet Union still existed, this jubilee would have been celebrated with much pomp. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union,...

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...

In the early 1920s Berlin saw the release of a book now deliberately forgotten, which was written by a world-famous philosopher, who spoke about the start of a new epoch in the development of mankind...

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...

The first festival-fair “Ukrayinske Salo-2004” [Ukrainian Fatback 2004] was definitely a success. Lasting two days, it attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and not only helped further...

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...

Ukraine should join NATO, declared US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz during his recent visit to Poland. In fact, this is the first public statement by a top US official, who spoke about the...

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 system of trade discounts has existed for over a century. One of them is locally known as “secondhand” and has been a plentiful source of clothing and other items for Ukrainians for the past...