№3, (2001)

It is our custom to sit down for a while and lose ourselves in thought when a family member is setting off on a long journey. We have seen off the second and seen in the third millennium. This is...

Heorhy POCHEPTSOV, professor: “We have just witnessed another round of the cassette scandal caused by a new move of the opposition: Mykola Melnychenko’s Radio Liberty interview, reprinted...

There is every reason to speak about a qualitatively new stage in the development of Ukrainian- Russian relations, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Ivan Aboimov said at a January 24 press conference....

On Saturday before last a gala concert of opera stars launched the international Ave Verdi Festival dedicated to the centennial of the great Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s death, which stirred...

Chief of the Presidential Administration Volodymyr Lytvyn believes the enactment of the law introducing a proportional system for parliamentary elections is premature. “The changeover to the...

On January 24 President Leonid Kuchma and First Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Charles Frank discussed the major avenues of cooperation between Ukraine and the...

(For the beginning see The Day No. 1, January 16, 2001) “A LEGEND IS SOMETHING THAT NEVER WAS BUT ALWAYS IS” Yuri SHAPOVAL: “I’ve been dealing with the Soviet period for a long time...

On January 26, Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko introduced to President Kuchma his candidate for the post of vice premier for industrial policy. That same day the president signed the decree...

According to Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Yevhen Marchuk, a recent meeting on fuel and energy problems focused on the fulfillment of presidential instructions to amend the...

Trends on both sides of the Atlantic are undermining the half century of partnership between North America and Europe. If these challenges become the cockpit of rivalry, allowing one side to seek...

As we know, nothing stands in place; everything develops. This is especially apparent to one and all with the semiannual (for spring-summer and autumn-winter seasons) of the top Ukrainian designers (...

“The new page will have fewer words, but they will be written correctly,” Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko said, addressing on January 23 a press conference on Ukrainian foreign policy in 2001....

Last week The Dayreported that the Moscow Patriarchate was preparing to take yet another drastic step in order to prevent the Pope’s visit to Ukraine. Two weeks ago, the foreign mass media learned...

In the Swedish city of Goteborg Kharkiv photographer Borys Mykhailov received Hasselblad Award for 2000. Mr. Mykhailov has become the first photographer from the former Soviet Union to win this prize...

January 23 saw the funeral of nine miners killed in a methane gas explosion at Krasnolymanska Coal Mine in Donetsk oblast. The accident happened at the 9:36 a.m. on January 21 in Krasnolymanska’s 800...