№3, (2008)

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...

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...

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...

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...

William Taylor, the US Ambassador to Ukraine, has said that a number of North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states are prepared to support Ukraine’s request to join the NATO Membership Action...

Jan. 29 1900: The Revolutionary Ukrainian Party is founded in Kharkiv, the first political party in the central, southern, and eastern territories of Ukraine. 1992: The Ministry of Justice registers...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The World Economic Forum ended on Thursday in the famous Swiss resort of Davos. Key issues, such as prospects of economic development, strengthening stability and peace, and the situation in...

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...

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...

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...

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...