№37, (2007)

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...

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...

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...

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...

Environmental monitoring, navigation systems, weather forecasting, toll collection, early flood warnings... — the role that space plays in our daily lives is increasing. Last week the European...

Dec. 4 1925: The first issue of the all-Ukrainian newspaper Komsomolets Ukrainy was published in Kharkiv (Molod’ Ukrainy from 1943). 2004: The foreign press widely comments on the situation in this...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

Belgium and the Netherlands, two founding members of the European Union, are increasingly divided about what that project now means. The EU’s Reform Treaty is now the focus of that dispute, but its...

The media are very chary about scholarship and scholars. The impression is that the entire life of our society hangs from a political string, while everything, including scholarship, is something...

(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...

“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...

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...