№28, (2004)

The Vladimir Krainev International Music Festival stands out among numerous creative projects that have become traditions in Ukraine because it involves international performing stars. But the main...

Inaugurated this past Saturday, the Kyiv-Odesa expressway is undoubtedly Ukraine’s construction project of the century. It is Ukraine’s first motorway built according to international standards. With...

Members of two Chernihiv-based civic organizations, the oblast Chornobyl Union of Ukraine and the municipal Union of People Disabled by Chornobyl, have sent a letter to President Leonid Kuchma,...

The Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine and the “Ukraine” Printing Combine finished printing presidential election ballots on Wednesday. Earlier, Serhiy Kivalov, Chairman of the Central Election...

Wednesday added a sad page to the budgetary saga in parliament; after three years of debate, the Verkhovna Rada instructed the budget committee, the cabinet, and the authors of amendments to revise...

October 14 marked the 62nd anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Although it was not a jubilee, this date makes us once again reflect on what we actually know about the UPA’s ideology —...

Last week a delegation of Japanese businessmen who work in Western Europe visited Ukraine. Their visit, partly organized by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), was a logical continuation...

October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the death of the distinguished American politician Gen. George Marshall. He served as Chief Military Aide to US Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry...

Russian expert Stanislav Belkovsky and Ukrainian political analysts Kostiantyn Bondarenko and Dmytro Vydrin believe that political consensus between Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko is the...

We want to live well, most will say, of course. Living well remains an open question, however. Some believe that living well is possible elsewhere. Others (among them experts The Day asked to help...

During the ceremony to launch the new term at the PoDiya school, head of the Diya All-Ukrainian Women’s People’s Democratic Association Tetiana Kondratiuk said that the members of her organization...

October 26. 1939. The People’s Assembly of Western Ukraine opened, at which it proclaimed Soviet power in Western Ukraine, its entering the Soviet Union, and reunification with the Ukrainian SSR....

(Conclusion; for beginning see No. 27) What a difference between these words and the prophetic lines of Shevchenko! His Ukraine is not ossified or besieged but open to the future. Shevchenko presents...

Contemporary music is a rather controversial notion. In the mass consciousness and in the press, which caters to this mentality, it can mean modern, popular, rock, hip-hop, etc. Meanwhile, the...

Last month, we observed the third anniversary of the day that awakened America to a new world, when extremists killed thousands of innocent people on American soil. Last week marked the third...