№30, (2006)

Starting next year, Ukraine is expected to see a steep rise in infant mortality. But don’t let this scare you. As The Day has already written, at issue here is not a higher number of crib deaths but...

On Sept. 27 the National Opera hosted the Zbory Pamiati memorial meeting as part of the project Zhyttia Narodovi Moiemu (Life for My People) commemortaing the 65th anniversary of the Babyn Yar...

Some 100,000 people visited Lviv to mark the city’s 750th anniversary. The chartered flights, additional trains, and limousines with diplomatic license plates were proof that the festivities...

What does NATO think of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych’s recent visit to the alliance’s headquarters and his statement that Kyiv is in no rush to join the NATO Membership Action Plan? Is Brussels...

Relations between Romania and Ukraine are somewhat strained. In the last while, both countries have been taking each other to the International Court of Justice. Bucharest and Kyiv almost...

Oct. 3 1917: An all-Ukraine Cossack convention convenes in Chyhyryn. The participants adopt a statute and elect a General Council headed by Pavlo Skoropadsky. 1973: A monument to the prominent...

“Lviv has an inimitable atmosphere and friendly people. It is a city that keeps evolving; it does not sleep; it is a city to which you can invite guests from all over the world and know they will be...

The horrible massacre that took place in late September, 1941-the greatest crime of the Nazi regime-was forever engraved in the souls of those people who were living in the Ukrainian land and present...

Should the Law “On the opposition” be passed or not? Experts and politicians are still wracking their brains over this question. The two drafts of the law have been registered in the parliament for...

US Ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor refuted Jane Defence Weekly’s allegation that Ukraine sold several Kolchuga early warning radar systems to Iran. The journal does not specify the number of...

By intervening in Lebanon, Europeans have made a far-reaching, risk- fraught, and, at the same time, correct decision. The reason is that the future of Europe’s security will be determined in the...

“Sit down, I say! Sit down and don’t be nervous!” Parents of the finalists in the national elimination competition unsuccessfully tried to calm each other down, and their children. The finishing...

(For Part One, see The Day, no. 29, Sept. 26, 2006) 4. Awareness of genocide Why has the problem that this article calls the healing of historical memory become so topical in our day? The reason may...

The Babyn Yar tragedy was brief and horrible: 65 years ago in the space of just two days, Sept. 29-30, 1941, the Nazis massacred almost 32,000 innocent victims here. A week and a half later,...

Our country has a good recollection of last year’s gas crisis, when Yulia Tymoshenko’s government instituted additional privileges for oil importers. No one has cancelled them since then, nor does it...