№4, (2006)
14.02.2006 - 00:00
Kyiv going under
Many monuments of Kyiv’s history and architecture are at risk, says Ruslan Kukharenko, chief of the Department for the Protection of Kyiv’s Cultural Heritage. Underground waters are eroding...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
“And on that embroidered towel...”
An exhibit of antiquities and handicrafts borrowed from private collections has opened in Kharkiv. A large part of the display consists of items from the private collection of President Yushchenko....
14.02.2006 - 00:00
“Let’s live in friendship”
The freedom of one individual ends where the freedom of another begins: this is the bottom line of the press conference “Freedom and Responsibility: Seeking Mutual Understanding” held last Friday in...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
Behind the veil of mystery
(Conclusion. For Part I, see The Day, No. 3) In his [Russian-language] work Maksim Zhelezniak, Volodymyr Holobutsky claims that Maksym Zalizniak was born in the village of Ivkivtsi, which was then...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
Elton John’s shoes for HIV-infected children
An unusual auction will be held in Kyiv on Feb. 22. Among the lots will be a suit and a pair of shoes belonging to the British pop star Sir Elton John (the suit was sewn personally by Gianni Versace...
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Baturyn: a preserve or a residence?
The government of Ukraine is studying the question of granting national status to the historical and cultural preserve “Hetman’s Capital” in Baturyn, Chernihiv oblast, reports ForUm, quoting Vice-...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
What is alarming Western experts about our elections?
The international community is closely following the election campaign in Ukraine. Last week great interest was aroused among Western analysts by the statement of the Party of Regions leader Viktor...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
On the threshold of the world’s markets
Ukraine is reckoning that it will join the WTO by the end of this year. This new deadline was announced recently by Deputy Minister of Economics Valeriy Pyatnytsky. Commenting on what this country...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
A moment of history revisited
Two events occurred simultaneously at Lesia Ukrainka Volyn State University on Feb. 8: the opening of The Day’s photography exhibit and the launch of the latest two books from our newspaper’s Library...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
“Political theater” makes a comeback
Hugging each other in a friendly fashion, Moroz and Vitrenko, Tymoshenko and Lytvyn, Yushchenko and Yanukovych, and other Ukrainian political figures are briskly dancing in the middle of a snow-...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
Hostage of politics
The results of Ukraine’s economic progress in 2005, which ended in a scandalously low GDP growth of 2.4 percent, are being discussed by everyone but the lazy. The range of assessments is broad: the...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
The wisdom of embroidered shirts
Classes in this Lviv school start with the morning prayer. The teaching staff includes nuns and priests. The grades, instead of the usual “A,” “B,” “C,” or “D,” have their own special designations...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
Legislative “traps” can catch about one million voters
About one million Ukrainians will not be able to cast their votes in the parliamentary and local council elections due to limitations in the election law, Ihor Popov, chairman of the Committee of...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
“I believe that Antonovs will continue flying the skies”
Ukraine is celebrating the Days of Antonov to commemorate the celebrated Ukrainian aircraft designer, chief designer Oleh Kostiantynovych Antonov, who would have been 100 years old today. The...
14.02.2006 - 00:00
First blood
Last Thursday Ukraine’s parliamentarians sprinkled President Yushchenko’s path to the parliamentary rostrum with blood. The blood came from the nose of Our Ukraine faction leader Mykola Martynenko,...