№39, (2005)

Coal production at state-run mines has fallen by four million tons. According to Mykhailo Volynets, MP and chairman of the Independent Union of Ukrainian Miners, this deficit may reach five million...

Ukrainian museums are asking for help. They lack space, money, and attention. Today 90 percent of collections are hidden away in storerooms because the exhibition halls are too small. Storerooms are...

The Emergency Management Ministry of Ukraine, the sanitary and veterinary services and authorities of the Crimea feel sure that bird flue poses no danger to people. “We’ve been working hard for 4...

Last Thursday, on the eve of the Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv, The Day asked a few people from various regions of Ukraine what they would like to gain from the European Union. Apparently, Ukrainians are...

Something unbelievable took place during the first 10 days of November in Sadhora — historical Sadagura — a once colorful commercial town that even had its own mint, and today is a drab suburb of...

Few such scenic spots are found even in Chernihiv oblast whose environs have long attracted travelers. Sedniv is situated on the steep bank of the beautiful river Snov (the “steep hill” immortalized...

EU officials’ cautious answers to questions about the possibility of Ukraine’s direct involvement in the European community of nations lead to disheartening conclusions. In the present situation,...

Last Thursday Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada rejected the cabinet-drafted state budget for 2006, with 274 MPs voting for this resolution. Parliament ruled that the state budget bill that the cabinet had...

Ukraine must join the World Trade Organization, as this will benefit our country, argue veteran WTO members, citizens of Germany, who took part in a Ukrainian-German forum of entrepreneurs. German...

In November 2003, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine, the distinguished scholar James Mace proposed lighting candles in tribute to the memory of the victims of...

“Fifteen years ago I became wheelchair-bound. That’s the way it is: yesterday I was a healthy guy, and today my elderly parents are taking care of me. To me it seemed that I was Ukraine’s first...

The 3rd International Decor and Giftware Exposition was held in one of KyivExpoPlaza’s exhibition halls. There was nothing superfluous here, just little trinkets that are absolutely...

The constituent forum of the Democratic Choice Community ended last Friday. The initiative to create this group came from the presidents of Ukraine and Georgia during the Borzhomi summit last August...

Business and the government are partners. Politicians and entrepreneurs keep repeating this phrase like a mantra. At a roundtable entitled “Ukraine at the Crossroads?” held last Tuesday, business...

Each year, four million babies die in their first four weeks of life — over 10,000 deaths a day. Most of these neonatal deaths go unrecorded and remain invisible to all but their families. Virtually...