№38, (2001)

Eleven-year-old Liuda Boiko from Uzhhorod excels at playing the violin and painting. She also walked away with first prize at Believe in Yourself festival, an all-expense-paid trip to Artek, a famous...

Such short visits of foreign officials to Ukraine seemed to have gone out of fashion, but Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero stayed in Kyiv not a day or even half a day but only four hours last...

People’s Deputy and first President Leonid Kravchuk recalled in The Day , No. 37, December 18, 2001, how to defend the national interests he had to look deeper into the problems of...

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...

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...

Although the West pines for Caspian oil, the establishment of an international consortium to run the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline still remains problematic. A number of Austrian companies have announced...

The head of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) Viktor Medvedchuk has been elected the head of the Eastern Europe Forum of Social Democrats. As the SDPU(o) press service informed UNIAN,...

“Each person has the right to protection not only of privacy but also of personal information. This is one of the fundamental rights outlined in the European Human Rights Charter,” Waltraut Kotschy,...

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...

“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...

December 25: 1941 . The Kerch-Feodosiya landing operation began, resulting in taking the Kerch Peninsula from the Germans. 1992. Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registered the Vasyl Stus Memorial...

On December 20 Ukraine’s parliament approved the bill On the State Budget for 2002, providing for revenues of 45.4 billion hryvnias and expenditures of 49.6 billion. The projected deficit is 4.3...

This was announced at a December 21 press conference by representatives of the Verkhovna Rada ad hoc investigative committee. People’s Deputies Oleksiy Shekhovtsov and Anatoly Khmeliovy are convinced...

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...

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...