№27, (2006)

The European Parliament has harshly criticized Turkey for delaying reforms. European parliamentarians, who recently passed a document containing a negative assessment of the Turkish government’s...

Children must be raised by families. Although this inalienable children’s right is self-evident, young mothers are abandoning their babies in increasing numbers, especially physically handicapped...

On Sept. 11 the US marked the fifth anniversary of the terrorist acts that claimed the lives of about 3,000 Americans. This tragedy ushered in a new era of combating international terrorism. What...

We recently celebrated 15 years of living in our own state. This is a considerable chunk of time, so the details of our life under Soviet rule have been well erased from our memory, and many...

Ukraine’s first nationwide comprehensive study completed this year shows that there are about 500,050 drug abusers in our country. Until now the official figure was 160,000 registered drug addicts....

Dmitri TRENIN, the deputy director and head of the scholarly council of the Carnegie Moscow Center, is one of Russia’s leading international experts. Since 1978 he has focused on international...

September 12 1996: Ukraine signs the 1996-99 Indicative Program with the European Union, envisaging, among other things, aid to Ukraine in the amount of some 700 million dollars. 1996: The...

No sooner had things calmed down around the scandal that erupted at a recent Cabinet meeting (it will be recalled that the ministers “slashed down” Viktor Yushchenko’s right to issue instructions to...

On Sept. 7, Hennadii Moskal, the Ukrainian president’s permanent representative to the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea, summarized the 2006 resort season’s preliminary statistics for the Crimea....

September 11, 2001, is one of those dates that mark a transformation in world politics. Just as the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, signified the Cold War’s end, al-Qaeda’s attack on the...

On Sept. 6 Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine flew on his first working visit to Poland, formally to take part in the 16 th Economic Forum “Krynica 2006,” where he was slated to meet with...

A gold ring, two amphorae, and a cup dedicated to Hercules are the treasures that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) handed over last Tuesday to the National Museum of Ukrainian History. These...

President Viktor Yushchenko’s visit to Azerbaijan smells of oil. He is there to continue the talks that Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych held last Wednesday in Warsaw with his Polish counterpart...

Summer is a dead season with closed concert halls and drama theaters. Many tourists visit the Ukrainian capital to marvel at Kyiv’s ancient and modern landmarks. The Day asked some museum employees...

While their descendants are erecting obelisks to the insurgents, if only to console themselves temporarily with the feeling of being “patriots of Ukraine,” the remaining participants and eyewitnesses...