№3, (2008)
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Immunity: looking for a common denominator
A meeting of the coalition council fully dedicated to a discussion of a package of top-priority draft laws for consideration and possible voting next Friday recently took place in Ukraine’s...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Ancient Rus’ streets being bulldozed
The scope of the construction boom in Kyiv has reached the point that excavators are destroying unique historic sites. Not so long ago, a developer’s construction team, which was getting ready to...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
A symbol of Ukrainian tenacity
The 110th anniversary of the birth of Mykola Khomychevsky, who is more familiar to readers by his pseudonym Borys Ten (1897—1983), was in December 2007. Unfortunately, just like his centenary, this...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
How to find one’s own way
Co-Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly at the Council of Europe Hanne Severinsen has announced that she will no longer be monitoring Ukraine. She explained that she intends run in the next...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Long live the Zhytychi!
The Day learned about the village of Lystvyn after its reporters were invited to the Japanese Embassy, where Mutsuo Mabuchi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine, and...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Time to kick the habit
In one of her little-known stories Lesia Ukrainka writes that ever since man decided he wanted to find happiness he has lost himself in this quest. Today, success and money are the closest...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
“A country’s brand is not its political system but national culture”
When the Ukrainian alpenhorn, the trembita, sounded on Market Square, there was so much power in that sound, it seemed as though the volume of air in peoples’ chests expanded. Then the bandura began...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Ukrainian brothers and sisters making a breakthrough in the world of sport
It is time to switch from spectacular but ineffective political races to more valuable, constructive, and no less interesting things, like sport, culture, and art — otherwise we will miss out...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
George SOROS: “You cannot expect philanthropy to replace the government”
DAVOS (SWITZERLAND) — George SOROS, the president of the Soros Foundation and the founder of the Open Society Institute, began his philanthropic activity in the 1970s. He provided financial...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
All Crimean schools get low marks
SYMFEROPIL — The Crimean parliament and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea are requesting the Ministry of Education of Ukraine to allow graduates of...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Standing on guard for freedom
After Mykhailo Hrushevsky issued the 3rd Universal (Decree) proclaiming the creation of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) on Nov. 7 (20), 1917, the Central Rada continued to Ukrainize all spheres...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Davos: new wind
Appetite comes as you eat. This is apparently also true of the popularity of the Ukrainian luncheon and foreign investors’ interest in Ukraine. One hundred and eighty people took part in the luncheon...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Time to welcome spring!
People in the know attribute all kinds of special qualities to clay. They say it has antioxidant properties, purifies energy sources in the home, and is a concentrate of the sun’s energy. According...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Small and beautiful
On Jan. 1, 2008, Slovenia took over the presidency of the European Parliament. The previous week in Strasburg I had an opportunity to become personally acquainted with its program, which was...
29.01.2008 - 00:00
Ministry of Internal Affairs shooting blanks
It is not all clear why our president and the interior minister believe that a steep rise in fines will solve traffic safety problems. This is clearly a primitive approach to tackling this kind of...