№27, (2004)

A noted economist walked up to me at The Day’s photo exhibit commemorating the newspaper’s eighth anniversary, and said with a pleasant smile: “So you’ve become a champion of sociology (he was...

On the Saturday before last a monument to commemorate the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who were killed on August 2, 1914, was unveiled near the town of Horodok, Khmelnytsky oblast. The...

October 19. 1653. The Muscovite Tsar’s embassy headed by Buturlin left for Pereyaslav to administer to the Zaporozhzhian Host the oath of loyalty to the Tsar. 1989. The founding session of the...

To recall when Ukraine’s national soccer team last topped its qualification group’s list, this writer had to strain his brains and even look up some reference sources. It turned out that our side...

Last week the European Commission presented its Tempus program to schools of higher learning in Ukraine, which is aimed at helping participating countries develop their educational systems. Program...

“Do you have a wheelchair?” I was about to answer when little Zemfira leaned against the column, which was preventing her from falling, and continued with a sigh: “It’s so difficult without a...

Ukraine’s nuclear power engineering will continue being developed. Premier Viktor Yanukovych reaffirmed this on Saturday when he attended the ceremony of launching the fourth power unit at the Rivne...

According to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), one in twelve children in the world dies before the age of five. A recently released UNICEF report says that in most countries that...

Last Wednesday the village of Pasychna, Starosyniavsky district, Khmelnytsky oblast, received encouraging news from Spain. “Liudmyla Tymoshchuk just phoned. She said she gave an organ recital in a...

Valentyna V. CHOPIAK, who lives and works in Lviv, has been appointed Chief Immunologist of Ukraine. She is a medical doctor and heads the Western Ukrainian Regional Clinical Immunology and Allergy...

This momentous question is once again front-page news. As reported earlier, the Constitutional Court ruled that the draft law on constitutional amendments, known as Bill No. 4180, complies with the...

Good-bye, Lenin! was named Europe’s best film last year, and we increasingly often observe young people sporting T-shirts or windbreakers with cynical legends like “USSR”; every second Ukrainian...

Seventy-seven-year-old Volodymyra Adevnina from Ternopil has an unusual hobby for her age. She makes quaint figurines of animals, fairy-tale characters, flowers, miniature replicas of medieval...

The other day Ukraine officially denounced the Ukraine-Uzbekistan bilateral treaty on the prevention of dual citizenship, which until now did not allow Crimean Tatar repatriants, citizens of...

Hopping on one leg, six-year-old Olia was telling her friend: “We slaughtered a hog, because we’re going to have a toloka! And we also made homebrew, but don’t tell anybody.” The girls are looking...