№3, (2009)

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has recently presented in Kyiv its first external assessment of the situation with Ukraine’s policy and legislation on competitiveness...

Ukraine’s pro-European choice is beyond doubt now. However, we have to take a series of well-thought-out and consistent steps that will lead to our EU membership. One of these steps is Ukraine’s NATO...

On the Sunday evening of December 28, 2008, Russia TV channel announced live the personality chosen as symbol of the nation. In a three-month-long nationwide Internet and SMS vote, the public chose...

The world closely followed the events in the Swiss city of Davos, hoping to hear about a way to save the world economy. Observers note, however, that the hopes pinned on the Davos wise men may fail....

The current economic situation is becoming increasingly reminiscent of what happened in the mid-1990s, regardless of the shows put up by the powers that be on television, in which prefabricated...

(Conclusion. For beginning, see The Day No. 2) Bohdan-Ihor Antonych’s poems were published along with overtly anti-Soviet works of Spyrydon Cherkasenko and Borys Lysiansky. Ohiienko was creating...

Poets are not afraid of Eternity. Each of them has their own one. The element of water is eternity for the Ukrainian-American poet Yurii Lazirko. This year the author, who is well-known in the...

In spite of all kinds of difficulties, some regions of Ukraine cannot say they are in a demographic crisis. This applies, above all, to Kyiv, Transcarpathian, and Rivne oblasts, where, according to...

Feb. 3 1940: The Ukrainian Canadian Committee is founded in Winnipeg. 1997: The Nuclear Insurance Pool of Ukraine is officially registered as a nonprofit organization uniting a group of Ukrainian...

There were many reasons for The Day’s meeting in Ostroh. Many new and interesting things have happened both in the newspaper and Ostroh Academy in the six months since The Day’s editor in chief...

The different approaches of Ukrainian and Russian scholars to the interpretation of the 1932–33 famine in the USSR first manifested themselves fifteen years ago. Practically from the very beginning...

Confrontation between the head of government and the head of state, triggered by the latter, has shifted to the budgetary sphere. In his unscheduled televised address to the nation Viktor Yushchenko...

Few Kyivites know that toward the end of the 15th century this city was granted the Magdeburg Rights (also known as Magdeburg Law) by Grand Duke Alexander of Lithuania. Few Lithuanians know that...

On Jan. 27, 1944, the residents of Leningrad, this large, well-known city on the Neva River, finally heard on the radio the words they had been waiting to hear for 900 horrible days and nights...

SIMFEROPOL—Artek, an international children recreation center , has long had a chronic fever. Nearly every spring Russian media filled the informational space with “news” of its demise, and every...