№4, (2005)

The relatively successful election in Iraq is a major victory for democracy, but not necessarily for liberal reform in the Middle East. This is an important distinction. The anti-democratic forces...

Viktor Yushchenko’s government is a politically expedient (if not revolutionary) administration, rather than a professional one. This is the impression created by the fifty decrees on cabinet and...

Forming the cabinet and appointing heads of central and regional executive bodies was the first serious test of strength for Viktor Yushchenko’s team and the entire political coalition that won the...

Olena CHUZHYKOVA, columnist, Dniprovska pravda newspaper (Dnipropetrovsk): The main task facing the new Ukrainian administration is to fulfill Viktor Yanukovych’s campaign program. Although it may...

A little more than a year away from the parliamentary elections, the current situation in the Ukrainian politics is unique in many ways. With the election of Viktor Yushchenko, who ran for president...

Enough time has passed for the people, who stood up for free choice, freedom of speech, and freedom in this country as a whole, to calm down and relax. Why not relax, if we won what looks like a...

February 8. 1994 . Ukraine joined NATO’s Peace program in Brussels. 1995. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a law on nuclear energy utilization and radiological safeguards. February 9. 1918. The...

In the last while, the question of providing free education has sparked renewed debate. Representatives of individual political forces see it as a necessary precondition for the democratization of...

Today 3.6% of Ukraine’s able-bodied citizens have no permanent job. Another million (according to pessimistic estimates, about seven million) of our citizens are seeking jobs abroad. It should not be...

People’s Deputy Ihor Shurma of the SDPU(o) faction hasn’t ruled out his support for Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, as long she implements the fundamentals of the program that she announced recently...

Longtime Yushchenko ally Mykola Tomenko has been appointed deputy prime minister for humanitarian policy. In the following interview Mr. Tomenko discusses his vision of this policy and the...

The Chernihivski Berehy Publishing House has just published the historical and ethnographic almanac Chernihivshchyna Incognita (The Unknown Chernihiv Region). The Day’s regular readers must have...

President Yushchenko has told The Times that he is committed to a three-year reform program already arranged with Brussels and aimed at putting Ukraine - the largest country wholly in Europe - on the...

The relationship between Ukraine and Poland has always been active, even in periods of difficulty. Warsaw tried to support Kyiv during the so-called tapegate scandal and the Kolchuha affair. Polish...

Creating jobs and developing small- and medium-sized businesses are among the central planks of the political platform of President Viktor Yushchenko and his team. In the following interview Yury...