№28, (2006)

I have written repeatedly about the problems of globalization: an unfair global trade regime that impedes development; an unstable global financial system that results in recurrent crises, with poor...

Traditionally The Day marks its birthdays among friends. This time was no exception. On Friday the newspaper marked its 10th anniversary with the 8 th International Photo Contest «Ten Years. Day by...

The Day came to readers at a very critical moment. 1995-1996 was a time when society was becoming aware of new challenges. Ukraine had broken free from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and spent...

The Ukrainian People’s Party (UNP) headed by Yurii Kostenko was the first extraparliamentary association to declare its opposition plans a month ago. Early last week the leader of the Party of...

Texas University professor Alan Cooperman is a well-known foreign affairs specialist. He has worked as a consultant to many American congressmen and published a number of analytical materials that...

September 19 1941: Moscow Supreme Command orders Soviet troops to retreat from Kyiv after 72 days of defense. 1991: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is re-established in the Ukrainian capital. September 20 1919...

In 2005 the average monthly gross expenses of a Ukrainian household reached UAH 1,229, up 36 percent from 2004, the State Statistics Committee reports. An urban and rural household spent an...

Great Britain is doing its best for Ukraine to draw closer to the EU in general and “misty Albion” in particular. Both the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian grassroots can feel this support....

Artist Yulii Sheinis’s holy of holies is located on the grounds of the Kyivan Cave Monastery in a small two-storied structure that houses another 28 studios with good pictures hanging on dingy,...

The US is determined to diversify not only sources of fuel supply but also delivery routes of “black and blue gold.” Currently focusing on the hydrocarbon-rich Caspian region, Washington considers it...

Every year Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine’s principal institution of higher education, admits about 500 foreign students. Young people of different religious faiths, mentalities,...

In early September the Roman Catholic Church honors Pope Gregory I the Great (540-604), one of its most famous and venerated saints. Eastern Orthodoxy also reveres Pope Gregory, referring to him as...

It looks as though Vilnius has taken over from Poland as Ukraine’s advocate in the European Union, as proved by the recent talks in Brussels between Lithuania’s Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas with...

People tend to want to get their hands on easy money. Some look for a higher salary, others play the lottery, while others gamble at the casino. But nobody ever refuses free money. This trusting-...