№35, (2005)

Without a doubt Ukraine’s WTO membership is just a matter of time. The problem is to get to this coveted place at the right time i.e., not suddenly but in a state of preparedness and armed with the...

(Continued from the previous issue) With the Stalinist taboo broken, Soviet historians began to explore the famine of 1933 with increasing intensity. It would be a mistake to say that the agony of...

Ukraine’s labor market is in a state of stagnation and depression, opportunities to find productive work are very limited, and prospects for creating new jobs are bleak, says a World Bank report. An...

The Day recently visited Dnipropetrovsk at the invitation of National Mining University. This newspaper and the university are good friends, and the faculty and students are our regular readers and...

Wesley Clark is a retired four-star US Army general. He is a former candidate for US President and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Although not a public figure in the political sense...

Ukrainian parliamentarians have put the skids under this country’s NATO plans. At the same time, they have dealt a blow to Ukrainian aviation. Is this the result of some pre-election games? A few...

November 8, 1927. The construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station began in Zaporizhzhia. 1938. The first autonomous government of Transcarpathia (later Carpatho-Ukraine) was established in...

Last week it was learned that the European Court of Human Rights ruling on “Ukrainian Press Group vs. Ukraine” dated March 29, 2005, came into force on Oct. 12, 2005, says lawyer Dmytro KUTAKH, who...

Last Thursday Ukrainians got a new Prosecutor General in record time, in less than half an hour into parliament’s morning plenary session. Oleksandr Medvedko, the nominee, obtained 303 votes. (On...

Every day Ihor Lubchenko, chairman of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, sees journalists and editors of oblast, raion, and village publications, who come to him as a last resort to help...

Good news from Yaroslav Davydovych, chairman of Ukraine’s Central Electoral Commission: the final tally of voters is ready. As of Nov. 1, Ukraine has 36,545,950 citizens with the right to vote,...

President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine said recently that 65 percent of Ukrainians support a revision of the privatization deals. This is a debatable point. Judging by opinion polls, the public has...

The 87th anniversary of the November Act proclaiming the Ukrainian National Republic was celebrated in Lviv in the usual solemn manner. This year’s celebration, however, was marked by the broad...

Some 20 new Ukrainian ambassadors may be appointed in November. So far Ukraine has received seven agrements [a government’s official approval of proposed envoys from a foreign government — Trans.]...

The diverse art exhibits in the Verkhovna Rada lobby have become standard practice. But the one now on display is unusual — an exhibit of embroidered pictures of flowers and landscapes made by SDPU(O...