№38, (2010)
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Ukrainian fuel: Price up, quality down?
As of Jan. 1, 2011, the Ukrainian oil refineries will have to enforce Euro 4 and 5 emission standards. Meanwhile, the MASMA Ukrainian research institute, which covers the oil-refining sector, says...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Nelli Isupova’s ceramic secrets
Earthenware is possibly the most ancient way of self-realization through creativity. These days they have become immensely modernized, absorbing new styles and production techniques. This is...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Golden dream for abandoned children
“We are ordinary people of different ages, different views on life, various nationalities and occupations. But we are one team united by a common, golden dream: find a family for every child...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
The dangers of nonalignment
As Viktor Yanukovych signed the law “On the Foundations of Domestic and Foreign Policy,” Ukraine finally achieved nonaligned status at a legislative level. Naturally, it is a sheer...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
EVENT
South-East Asia interested in two Ukrainian An-148s
The Antonov state-run company has signed a contract with Russia’s Ilyushin Finance leasing company on the supply of two new An-148...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
The threat of the “putinization” of Ukraine
Experts name the restoration of the power vertical as one of the positive steps taken after Viktor Yanukovych moved to Bankova St. Despite having just as much power as his predecessor, Yanukovych...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Internet becomes key entertainment
The reason that young people are called young is because they do not live according to old stereotypes and canons but are able to have fun and take the best from life. However, one can have fun in...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
This day in history
1874: The research gunboat Yersh is launched, marking the final phase in Russia’s wooden shipbuilding.
1886: The first Ukrainian newspaper America comes off the presses in the United...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Ours among the ten best athletes
Ukrainian sportsmen won six medals: two golden, three silver, and one bronze at the European Athletics Championships, recently finished in Barcelona, reports the press-service of the...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
The FSB’s reach becomes longer still
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed the amended law “On Changing the Federal Legislation on the Federal Security Service” and the Code of Administrative Offenses...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Kyiv’s access roads to be repaired on credit
Ukraine may receive a €450-million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to improve Kyiv access motor roads and finish the reconstruction of the M-06 Kyiv-Chop highway...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Humanity before your eyes
August 6 through 26, the exhibit World Press Photo’10 is going to operate in the Lavra Art Gallery. It will present this year’s best 200 photos in such categories as Spot News,...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Historical memory is a process
Last Saturday, The Day’s unfailing expert Yurii Shapoval, a historian who is well known both in Ukraine and abroad, celebrated his birthday. I called to wish him many happy returns —...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Climate and nuclear energy
Will the development of nuclear energy save the environment? The issue is increasingly being discussed by politicians, scientists and ordinary citizens around the world. Experts from influential...
05.08.2010 - 00:00
Parallel Donbas
Primitive illegal mines (or “holes,” as they are usually called by miners) were until recently a kind of an open secret of the Donbas coal basin. Everyone, from top officials in the...