№34, (2012)

Russia’s monopolist gas company Gazprom is obviously alarmed by Ukraine’s statement to the effect that it will pump Russia’s gas to its underground storage facilities (USF) to meet its ends, no one...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a well-known American political scientist, a professor at Johns Hopkins University; a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a...

Later last week Yale University Professor Timothy Snyder, well known for his studies of Soviet and Nazi crimes in Eastern Europe (incidentally, his book Bloodlands was published in Ukrainian),...

1707: Hetman Ivan Mazepa of Ukraine and Charles XII of Sweden start secret talks on joint action against Peter I of Russia. 1768: The Ukrainian Cossack and peasant rebellion against Poland, known as...

This year’s venue of the competition was the European Town Platform near the People’s Friendship Arch. According to the results of the previous stage of competition, collections created by 18 young...

By Ivan KAPSAMUN, The Day The Kuchma case has been adjourned for another two months. The last judicial instance the ex-president was to go through is the High Specialized Court of Ukraine for...

Expositions of works by plastic artists from Ukraine, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, Russia, the Netherlands, and China will be open for a month. First International Festival of Contemporary...

UNIAN reports that the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine has failed to hold an auction selling T-bills scheduled for June 5; that during that auction the investors were offered to buy such bills for...

Pawel Kowal, Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament, told The Day in a previous interview that there are four to five legal ways of solving the...

An old medieval saying goes: “City air makes you free.” Tellingly, this proverb emerged in Germany, whose urban centers, first of all, Magdeburg and Hamburg, learned to effectively...

Every period in the 1,530-year-long history of Kyiv has left its imprint in the city. However, some of them hid the heritage of the previous time or even destroyed it. By no means seeking to be all...

What plagues human advance? First, there’s “Radical Inertia.” This is a deep resistance to change, encountered whenever a way of doing or seeing things is deeply ingrained in us or our systems....

Next Monday Ukraine’s national soccer team will play its first official match since November 2009. This will be a Euro-2012 group stage game against the national team of Sweden. Owing to Euro-2012,...

Ukraine has just gone through another visit of the IMF mission headed by newly appointed Chris Jarvis. The Ukrainian officials did not associate the IMF mission visit to Ukraine with the continuation...