№36, (2005)

The Council of Europe is primarily about respect for human rights. Upon joining this organization a decade ago, Ukraine undertook to defend democratic values. Judging by the fact that the Ukrainian...

As The Day has already reported (see No. 35), the European Human Rights Court’s ruling of March 29, 2005, in which the court satisfied the suit of Ukrainian Media Group, publishers of Den/The Day,...

It appears that the snow-covered Orange Maidan had its stage directors and script writers, concrete persons who made sure the stage was kept busy, that the right kind of music sounded at the right...

“My parents know something about the European Union, but they never even heard about the Council of Europe.” I heard this from a German diplomat, who shared his opinions of the tenth anniversary of...

The 7th International Book Fair “Book World 2005,” held at Kyiv’s Sportyvny expo center of the National University of Physical Education and Sport of Ukraine on Nov. 10 to 13, gathered about 300...

The Crimean parliamentary taskforce, which is exploring the possibility to amend the Crimean Constitution, has already held two meetings. Aside from the declared purpose of such amendments, there is...

November 15, 1918. An uprising began against Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky headed by the Dyrektoriya. 1919. The UNR State Council with the participation of Dyrektoriya members and UNR government gave...

Most Ukrainian MPs look on the budget as a self-service shop through which they try to meet their election campaign requirements. This unusual notion was expressed recently by Ralf Wachsmuth, chief...

Last Tuesday the well-known financier and philanthropist George Soros told journalists about the goals of his brief visit to Ukraine to attend a meeting of the International Crisis Group’s board....

On Wednesday, Nov. 9, the One-Street Museum on Andriyivsky Uzviz launched an exhibit entitled “Mouthpiece of the Soviet Period,” organized in collaboration with the Collectors Club. The exhibit...

Ukrainian psychiatrists are anxiously awaiting the elections. No, don’t get me wrong, they’re not worried about the potential candidates. It is just that their patients may become a resource, however...

President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine and the First Lady, Kateryna Yushchenko, attended the premiere of Natalka Poltavka, starring Oleh Skrypka, at the Ivan Franko National Academic Theater, the...

European universities will offer increasingly more scholarships to Ukrainian students and researchers, and there will be greater opportunities for cultural cooperation between EU member states and...

The European Union will provide 3.8 million euros to assist Ukraine in combating illegal migration, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Hennadiy Moskal announced recently. “Strengthening the Sphere of...

Ivan Kraskovsky, an outstanding figure of the Ukrainian and Belarusian national liberation movements, was born on June 24, 1880, in the village of Dubychi Tserkovni in the family of the Orthodox...