№30, (2004)

In 2004, Ukraine’s Justice Ministry registered a record low number of charitable organizations. Until recently, Ukraine had an annual average of seventy organizations with international status and...

A juicy scandal has erupted among Ukraine’s sociologists. What is more, it erupted (or, to be more precise, continued) at a press conference, where the National 2004 Exit Poll Consortium disclosed...

Continued from The Day No. 29 THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION Adam Kysil shouldered the incredibly heavy burden of fulfilling the Treaty of Zboriv, especially the Cossacks’ demand to abolish the Uniate...

Little over a month has passed since the publication in Ukrainian and Polish of the third book of The Day’s Library Series, Viyny i Myr [Wars and Peace], under the general editorship of Larysa...

Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski wants to see more observers monitoring the runoff elections in Ukraine, a ProEurope correspondent in Warsaw quotes Kwasniewski as saying during his televised...

Ukraine is currently home to nearly ten million children. But not all of them are growing in well-to-do families. Children from problem families are raised in orphanages, boarding schools, and foster...

In the past three weeks there hasn’t been a single weekend without an opposition rally in Kyiv. The past Saturday was no exception, as tens of thousands of Kyivans flocked to the main city square for...

Last weekend, Kyiv’s Ukrayina Palace hosted the traditional ceremony launching the 34th Kyiv Molodist Film Festival, which culminated in the screening of Kira Muratova’s Nastroyshchik [The Tuner]. Of...

On April Fool’s Day the journalists at one Kyiv publication published a spoof declaring that because of the tense traffic situation, trishaws will soon appear in Ukraine’s capital. The hoax proved...

The question of dual citizenship with Russia and granting Russian the status of second official language is not relevant for the time being, said Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych in a November...

Fortunately or not, economic analysts cannot keep pace with their peers in politics, who normally air their conclusions immediately after an event. Economic statistics, and resulting economic...

I would like to voice some reservations about Ukrainian society’s failure to discuss the method of anonymous polling, which was used in the exit poll in the first round of the October 31 presidential...

Last Friday the National Opera of Ukraine staged a new version of Tchaikovsky’s Mazepa [Mazeppa], which showcased a young cast, in keeping with the aims of director Dmytro Hnatiuk and orchestra...

The 2005 budget bill was again voted down by the Verkhovna Rada. Even when the six “striking” factions and groups of people’s deputies returned to the hall, the 226 yeas required to pass the bill...

On November 1, 2004, Cardinal Liubomyr Huzar, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and Maryan Yavorksy, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine celebrated a liturgy for the dead...