№31, (2004)

November 16. 1913. The Kyiv Conservatory, Ukraine’s leading musical higher education institution, was opened. 1994. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a law On Ukraine Joining the Treaty on...

The fifteenth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 1989, which brought an end to 41 years of communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, is an opportunity to ponder the meaning of moral...

President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine has dismissed eleven heads of district administrations in some regions of this country: Oleksandr Chaban, Bile Ozero district, Kherson oblast; Vasyl Vaskivsky,...

The cabinet’s newsmakers decided to make last Monday less “blue” by announcing some breath-taking plans for privatization. The concertmaster was Mykhailo Chechetov, Chairman of the State Property...

Dear Editors of The Day, The ongoing controversial election campaign leads one to believe that the atavisms of the Soviet regime prevent the society from making further progress. We are witnessing...

Last Thursday First Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mykola Azarov announced that the so-called “High-Level Group” would hold a new round of talks on November 19 in Moscow (two days before...

Never before has Ukraine had such favorable conditions as it does now to carry out its strategic policies and crucially important reforms. Most of Ukraine’s economic trends and short-term prospects...

On November 10, at about 4 p.m., Serhiy Kivalov, the head of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), finally announced the official results of the first round of the presidential elections. Viktor...

The Ambassador of France to Ukraine, Philippe de Suremain, hopes that the election runoff will be a fair contest. The ambassador compared the second round of the Ukrainian presidential elections to a...

November 13 is International Day of the Blind. It is common knowledge that the attitude toward people with special needs is the yardstick for measuring a society’s maturity, openness, and democracy....

A Ukrainian delegation led by the Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament has flown to Washnigton. Among the US officials to receive it is Senator Richard Lugar, Chairman of the Foreign Relations...

Last Thursday the city of Khmelnytsky hosted a readers’ conference on Den/The Day Library’s new book Wars and Peace and was also the site of the launch of our newspaper’s photo exhibition displaying...

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has urged the police, particularly precinct officers, on behalf of the government to do their best to ensure trouble-free voting in the election runoff on...

Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko believes that 12% of the votes were fixed in the first round of the elections. He said this in Kyiv, speaking to regional journalists, Interfax-Ukraine...

The launch of the exhibit “Crimean War: Ukrainian Heritage,” based on the Sheremetyev family collection, took place at the University Art Gallery at Taras Shevchenko National University. The...