№38, (2001)

Unlike most of our readers in English, most Ukrainians still have a couple of weeks to wait before celebrating their Christmas according to the Julian calendar. They are now gearing up for New Year’s...

President Leonid Kuchma believes that the new Tax Code will not go into effect before 2003. “We should understand that the 2003 budget will be adopted on the basis of the old tax law,” the president...

The restive Youth: Ukraine’s Hope led by Vadym Hladchuk yet again picketed the Kyiv State Administration on December 18. According to the organizers of the action, they resumed picketing the mayor’s...

Two things were in the public limelight on December 19. The book Ukrainian Coal Miner Heroes of Labor by Mykola Surhai and Serhiy Fishchenko was presented under the chairmanship (quoted from the...

The Red Corpus of Taras Shevchenko National University has hosted, with assistance from the French Embassy in Ukraine, this year’s first Christmas recital of Ihor Blazhkov and his Perpetuum Mobile...

Three or four years ago Reni was a dilapidated and ugly city with huge debts. I cannot even recall the number of its creditors. There were no good roads and we needed more bridges. Lack of city gas...

The agenda of the Ukraine-NATO Commission Brussels session at the level of defense ministers was more modest than that of a similar meeting with Russia. The main point of discussion here was military...

While you still can walk – you must travel. I convinced myself that this phrase is true after traveling around 4000 kilometers on the roads of Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, and Netherlands in ten...

On the morning of December 21 the Voice of America brought bad news to Ukraine. The United States reacted without delay (in fact on December 20) to the voting-down of the bill On Government...

“What is happening in the Middle East? What do you think provoked the latest escalation of violence?” “We assess the situation as critical. I can agree with Terry Larsen, UN special coordinator...

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and Ministry of Internal Affairs have been authorized to refuse Ukrainian nationals and entities permits to conduct operations with foreign currency. The National...

The Day is the only Ukrainian national political newspaper that conducts annual international photo contests. It is no accident that we encourage the nation’s art of photography. Over the three years...

The international three-day scientific and practical conference, Sociopolis in Ukraine: Technologies of Practical Construction, ended its work the week before last. It was attended by state officials...

Beginning on January 1, 2002, Ukraine will become a true abroad: residents of all CIS countries except for Russia and Belarus will have to present not their internal passports but the foreign ones to...

All that is going on around us assumes a brilliant political coloration, with the current census in Ukraine being no exception. This domain is, like the British Parliament, a place of a bitter...