№39, (2005)

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...

It doesn’t take a Nostradamus to realize that Ukraine will not be admitted into the European Union any time soon. However, it doesn’t take a “more than a well informed realist” to turn this into a...

“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...

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,...

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...

December 6. Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 1932. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR and the CP(b)U Central Committee passed a decision on blacklisting the villages, ‘maliciously...

Last week’s historic achievement was as important as the sale of the Kryvorizhstal Steel Mill. The Ukraine-EU summit announced that Ukraine will be granted market economy status. European Commission...

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...

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...

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...

TOTALLY UNPREPARED Although the parliamentary election campaign has begun in Ukraine, political parties and voters are equally unprepared for it. This is the conclusion of experts at the Razumkov...

December 1 marked World AIDS Day. Countless events, conferences, and exhibits are held every year — then silence descends. In Ukraine, despite the fact that the numbers of HIV-infected people are...

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...

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...

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...