№37, (2007)
04.12.2007 - 00:00
10 universities in Kyiv test for HIV
“No, HIV isn’t about me. I can’t have something like that.” This is probably what each one of us thinks when we hear about HIV. But every day we rub shoulders with people who have been living with...
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The pluses and minuses of using biofuel in Ukraine
The dispute over agricultural crops as an alternative source of energy or farming produce may well turn into a global problem. This became clear during the discussion of the World Bank’s report on...
04.12.2007 - 00:00
Sad songs about the main thing
For the past 10 years Andrii Zholdak has been presenting the achievements of the modern Ukrainian stage at the New European Theater (NET) festival in Moscow. A few years ago he brought his Kharkiv...
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Preventive work
Sixteen years ago, on Dec. 1, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine was created. Mykola Malomuzh was appointed to head it in April 2005. His office is neither luxurious nor large. There is a...
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Goran ALEKSIC: “We, Serbs, are impressed by Ukraine’s scale”
Today’s guest of our regular column “Ukraine through the Eyes of Foreigners” is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro to Ukraine Goran ALEKSIC. Like...
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The special features of Ukrainian national identity in the Donbas
“The residents of various Ukrainian regions hold many values in common, something we can and are willing to discuss. In fact, we can be friends, not just students discussing scholarly topics. The...
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Yevhen STANKOVYCH: “Ukraine must have its own modern culture in spiritual rather than geographical terms”
Yevhen Stankovych recently returned from Donetsk. The Solovianenko Opera and Ballet Theater is getting ready to stage a new version of his folk opera Tsvit paporoti (The Magical Fern Flower). The...
04.12.2007 - 00:00
Orange coalition finally created
We have waited for this event for two months. Finally, the BYuT and NU-NS have come up with a democratic coalition. The compromise was Kyrylenko as parliamentary speaker, but early in the...
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Identity and moder nization
(Conclusion. For beginning, see the previous issue of The Day)
KYIV-TOKYO-KYOTO-HIROSHIMA-NAGOYA-ISE-TOKYO-KYIV — In Tokyo I was fortunate enough to explore a very interesting...
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The Ukrainian people put an end to the USSR
Sixteen years ago, on Dec. 1, 1991, the citizens of Ukraine voted in favor of the Verkhovna Rada’s act “On the State Sovereignty of Ukraine” during a national referendum. The 1977 Constitution of the...
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Second life for garbage
Paper, metal, glass, plastics, and other domestic waste should not be placed in a single garbage can. The principle of garbage sorting, which is practiced in many parts of the world, has now been...
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Yurii POLIACHENKO: “Not everyone is ready to become an organ donor”
Over the past three decades only 3 heart, 58 liver, and fewer than 2,000 kidney transplants have been performed in Ukraine. The Ministry of Health says our country needs hundreds more transplant...
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How can Ukraine resist the storm?
The latest environmental reports say that the situation in the Black Sea, where a large quantity of oil and lubricants spilled from tankers and barges during a violent storm on Nov. 11-12...
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“Our victorious flag is the Third Universal”
Continued from The Day, no. 36 The Ukrainian legislative acts elicited universal excitement and the realization that the people are the source of power. This idea was emotionally expressed by the...
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Encounters by the side of the road
A photography show entitled On the Way: from the Carpathians to the Sea of Azov, opened on Nov. 29 at the Foundation for Assistance to Art with the participation of the Embassy of France in Ukraine...