№4, (2008)
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Volodymyr OHRYZKO: “Joining NATO means bringing our society up to the highest standards”
Will Ukraine manage to join NATO’s Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the Bucharest summit, and will US support be enough for this? These and other questions are answered in The Day ’s blitz interview...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
People with HIV at the mercy of a double standard
Today in Ukraine an ordinary survey exploring public attitudes to people with HIV is unfeasible for the simple reason that it is impossible to select respondents who suffer from HIV. Sociologists...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Craft and brilliance
The memorable opening of the exhibit of artworks by the noted Ukrainian filmmaker Serhii Paradzhanov took place at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The show features 55 works on loan from...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Alexander KWASNIEWSKI: “Ukraine should show more vigor in Brussels”
Alexander KWASNIEWSKI, the former president of Poland, is a frequent guest in Ukraine and a constant observer of events taking place in our country. He has been tapped as one of the candidates for...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Kyiv Zoo getting ready for its 100th anniversary
The Kyiv Zoo will be marking its 100th anniversary this October, Interfaks-Ukraine reports, citing the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration (KMDA). According to Denys Bass, the deputy...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Editorial by Michael Emerson: Ukraine starts afresh
Ukraine is hardly alone among European democracies enjoying the stresses of coalition politics. Currently Germany, Italy, Belgium and Ukraine would together have no problem in agreeing with Winston...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Codenamed Sejm
The launch of the sixth volume of the joint publishing project Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s-1940s: Unknown Documents from Secret Police Archives took place recently in the Polish cities of Warsaw...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
“Who will defend Abel?”
Today’s Ukraine has a crying need for honest intellectuals. Although the Soviet system spared no effort to wipe out the scholarly, artistic, and spiritual intelligentsia, such people do exist. One of...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
A lesson for the government
On Jan. 29, 1918, some 530 men fought for the young Ukrainian state at Kruty, a small railroad station between Nizhyn and Bakhmach (today: Chernihiv oblast). These were soldiers and officers from A-...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Cool neutrality
The relationship between Ukraine and Russia has had its frequent ups and downs. A team of experts at the Kyiv Institute for the Study of Russia (KIVR) decided to ascertain how much the attitude of...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Gambling is a thorn in the side
There is probably not a lawmaker alive who will succeed in placing such a specific business as gambling under government control. But this does not mean that people shouldn’t try. This time around it...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Impetus for investors
The full house at the Ukrainian House was a clear sign of how business circles responded to the invitation to attend the forum “Government and Business Are Partners” and exchange their views of...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Lesia STAVYTSKA: One has to overcome own taboos
What should have happened long ago has finally taken place. Kyiv’s Krytyka Publishing House has published the book The Ukrainian Language without Taboos: A Dictionary of Uncensored Vocabulary and...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
A house to replace the parental home
Until recently, five-year-old twins Mykola and Oleh lived in a run-down rooming house and were often beaten by their parents. The kids became incapacitated and spent a lot of time in hospitals. Their...
05.02.2008 - 00:00
Oleksandr SUSHKO: “Tymoshenko has honestly fulfilled the MAP agreements”
Why was the Prime Minister Tymoshenko’s visit to NATO headquarters shrouded in secrecy, as opposed to her visits to various EU institutions? Will Tymoshenko really help Ukraine obtain MAP status at...