№32, (2010)
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Advice from the German ambassador
The new leadership has declared its intention to implement many a reform in both international and domestic spheres, as well as that of the national economy. However, there have been different...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
The Ukrainian village invites!
“…a dream yields nil if it’s not made real.”
Hryhir Tiutiunnyk
All good human deeds start with someone’s dream. Fourteen years ago some married couple,...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Dystopia on The Day of Journalism
Viktor Yanukovych’s press conference, held in the Ukrainian House on occasion of his first 100 days of presidency, became a kind of test of the degree of freedom (or lack thereof) granted to...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Post-Kyoto syndrome
This week the next two-week round of climate change talks is nearing completion in Bonn. The main task of 2,000 delegates from some 150 countries is to work on the text of a new agreement on...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Thank you Quebec!
Although the head of the Ukrainian state declared, at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, that it would be unjust to consider the Holodomor of 1932-33 as...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Yanukovych (not Ukraine) is rejecting NATO
Last Thursday the Verkhovna Rada approved Viktor Yanukovych’s rejection of NATO. The bill on the foundations of domestic and foreign policy was No. 1 on the agenda. Prime Minister Mykola...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Little Yurchyk and Sofiika want to be able to hear
Lviv – The Day has always paid a lot of attention to charity. This article is no exception – its heroes are Yurchyk and Sofiika Vozniak, two aurally impaired children from the village...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Getting used to the new “norm”
The media have been talking of the summer of 2010, which is set to become the hottest in the history of meteorological observations. They refer to the forecasts made by the National American Space...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
This day in history
1917: The First All-Ukrainian Congress of Peasants opens in Kyiv. 1918: The All-Russia Commission on Preservation and Detection of Monuments to the Past is founded as Russia’s first research,...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Grounds for reform and countless debts
This week may well mark an important phase in the restoration of full cooperation between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund — and, consequently, with other international financial...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
A “territorial” consensus
The stumbling block, which has hitherto barred Croatia from joining the European Union, seems to have been removed. The process was obstructed by a long-time territorial argument with Slovenia, where...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Oleh SKRYPKA: The cultural boom is the result of the freedom of the past five years
Unlike the previous year, when the July Ukrainian festival called Kraina mrii (Dreamland) lasted for one day only, this year’s show comes back to its ususal two-day regime. It will last July...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Naive but wise
The naive painting art of the Ukrainian folk master Maria Prymachenko received much hype in 2008, on the occasion of the birth centenary of this talented artist whose name stands next to those of...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
Balanced policy?
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will pay an official visit to Ukraine in early July. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s website informs that Mrs. Clinton had a telephone conversation with Foreign...
10.06.2010 - 00:00
The Alliance respects Ukraine’s choice 100 percent
NATO’s General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated that the Alliance would respect Ukraine’s choice 100 percent. UNIAN reports that he told this at the traditional monthly press conference....