№30, (2005)

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine, Jacek Kluczkowski, has been in Ukraine for just a few weeks, but he has already met Ukraine’s key politicians...

Last week we celebrated International Tourism Day, which bureaucrats always welcome with exceptional enthusiasm. By 2010 Kyiv will be receiving ten times more tourists, while the number of Ukrainians...

The rift in Ukraine’s Orthodox community remains a topical and painful social problem. In fact, the problem lies not so much in this schism as the fact that a considerable number of Ukrainians...

Providing Ukrainian youth with a patriotic sports upbringing is a very acute and high-priority problem. The sad fact is that the state has shifted almost the entire responsibility to grade schools,...

Valeriy LYTVYTSKY, head of a group of advisers to the National Bank governor: “I welcome the reappointment of Viktor Pynzenyk as minister of finance. His work was full of initiatives that had a...

One day a female friend, who was adding photos to her children’s album, stumbled on a page where she had to update her family tree. She later confessed that the blank page spurred her into thinking...

Popularizing Ukrainian studies in Italy is Professor Oxana Pachlowska’s field of endeavor. An outstanding scholar, Pachlowska chairs the Ukrainian Language and Literature Department at Rome’s La...

For the first time in the political history of Ukraine a march called Anticapitalism 2005 took place in Kyiv. My notes on this event will rely on the dialectic principle: thesis-antithesis-synthesis...

The last few months have taken a heavy toll on Ukrainians’ trust in the nation’s leadership. This is the verdict of two sociological think tanks that last week publicized the results of their...

At a recent press conference Hryhoriy Operenko, deputy chairman of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, announced that, owing to untaxed profits of state-run enterprises, the 2005 budget will...

“Belarusian Opposition Artists in Kyiv” is the name of an art exhibit featuring paintings banned in Belarus and now being shown in public for the first time at the Center for Ukraine-Belarus...

Television viewers are becoming increasingly irritated by commercials, which take up 5, 10, and even 25 percent of airtime. After 40 minutes you forget what you have been watching and on what channel...

“Daddy, hurry up. The photo contest will close in an hour!” a girl spoke into her mobile phone, urging her parents to see the best photos of the year. Last Sunday, The Day summed up this year’s photo...

In congratulating The Day on its 9th anniversary, I would like to express a few words of gratitude to the journalists and authors of articles that provide a philosophical slant on events, which over...

In early October the fall session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will verify how Ukraine has been honoring its commitments to the Council of Europe, including the...