№39, (2003)

It is traditional to sum things up as the year draws to a close. The pollsters were among the first to do so. According to a survey conducted in late November by the Ukrainian Institute of Social...

Seven countries presented their films for showing in Ukraine’s capital. The audience will have a chance to see films by renowned directors Frank Capra, Mykola Shpikovsky, Aki Kaurismaki, and others....

In most regions of Ukraine bread prices rose 30-40% in November alone. Other foodstuffs followed suit, albeit to a lesser degree, and even vegetables sold at unusually higher prices for the season....

Unbelievable, but Tarantino has done it again! He did because he can do it like no one else, coming up with yet another 100% blockbuster that even the most exacting cinephiles can find no faults with...

A two-day NATO conference, NA TO Transformation: Agenda for the New Century, ended in London on December 9. It dealt with a broad range of issues relating to the Alliance’s further development and...

For the past four years the Ukrainian economy has shown a steadily high growth rate. In 2000-02, the GDP rose by 20.9%, and 7.2% in the first ten months of this year. Industrial output has shown an...

The Defense Ministers of Ukraine and Russia have signed a Plan for Bilateral Cooperation between their departments for 2004. The Defense Ministry press service reported that the signed plan would...

Ways to improve Ukraine’s integration into NATO from the economic standpoint, the role of small and medium Ukrainian business in stepping up Ukraine’s integration into Euro-Atlantic structures -...

The Cultural Heritage Museum recently launched an art exhibit by Meritorious Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Mylovzorov under the eloquent title Bacchanalia. It is a month-long and displays more than...

On December 12 the government received some of the world’s top rating agency executives including Moody’s Investors Service Ltd. Vice President Jonathan Schiffer, Senior Vice President Michael Korwin...

Ukraine’s foreign policy priorities can be in short described as heading West but emotionally clinging to the East, as suggested by a poll of 1,600 persons conducted by the Sociological Service of...

The European Union’s enlargement has been viewed rather ambiguously in Ukraine. While some see more positive aspects in it, since the zone of wellbeing is coming closer to our borders, others, on...

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryshchenko discussed the issues of Ukraine’s participation in rebuilding Iraq, humanitarian aids to this country, and diplomatic relations between Kyiv and...

The Ukrainian-Polish history of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries is a stormy whirlwind of Cossack and peasant uprisings against magnates and the nobility, and oppression of Orthodox...

Last Saturday the Fifth International Book World 2003 Fair finished its work in Kyiv. Its participants were almost 250 publishers, printing shops, and media outlets, The Day included. Certainly,...