№40, (2005)

We are living in a truly revolutionary period. It is strange that such an unforgettable event passed unnoticed by the media and cultural circles. For the first time in the history of independent...

It is a worldwide practice that budget funds are distributed, fairly or quasi-fairly, by lobbyists. In our country this respected occupation is often left up to parliamentarians who, by force of...

I’m in the subway on my way to see a new movie. It’s not like I was in a hurry. I was engrossed in an article with a next-day deadline. I amended the draft as I reread it on the train. As I was going...

On Dec. 5 former presidential bodyguard Major Mykola Melnychenko held a long-awaited press conference widely expected to produce sensational new revelations. Journalists were not the only ones who...

The Institute of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University met with The Day, continuing our newspaper’s longstanding tradition of talking to students from various Ukrainian institutions...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the distinguished expert on geopolitics, recently made another visit to Kyiv. His visit was brief but packed with meetings with journalists and Ukrainian politicians. The former...

On Dec. 8 Brussels hosted another session of the Ukraine-NATO Commission and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council at the foreign ministerial level. The Ukrainian delegation was headed by Foreign...

Today no coal mine in Donetsk oblast is implementing the regional program to develop mining operations, which is critical to the successful operations of mines. The region has seen a significant...

When the Ukraine-European Union talks on relaxing visa requirements are completed, some categories of Ukrainian citizens will be eligible to receive free or long-term visas, the Ambassador...

It took three years of painstaking work involving negotiations, correspondence, creating a reproduction, blessing it, and making shipping arrangements to display a new copy of the Shroud of Turin at...

The Kyiv Museum of Russian Art recently unveiled an exhibit entitled “The World of the Orthodox Icon.” It features works from private collections of this art form, which combines sacral dimensions...

President Viktor Yushchenko has signed amendments to a number of laws relating to the work of the mass media during the election campaign, which were adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on Nov. 17. The...

On Dec. 9 work began on the construction of an ambitious project, the so-called “bypass gas pipeline,” linking Russia and Western Europe via the Baltic Sea. This symbolic event occurred against the...

Sociologists say that with the parliamentary elections just four months away public confidence in Ukrainian power institutions has dropped to the level registered in the final years of Leonid Kuchma’...

With the approaching Christmas holidays many cities all over the world are plunging into the hustle and bustle of pre-Christmas sales. At the same time smaller and less conspicuous but important...