№40, (2005)

Over time the uncomfortable truth is becoming increasingly clear: all those declarations about the “European vector,” however sincere, are one thing, but the hard work to meet the deadlines for...

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...

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...

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...

December 13, 1918. An uprising took place in Kyiv against the hetman’s rule, and the Directory entered the city. 1941. The Nazis arrested prominent Ukrainian intellectuals who were active OUN members...

On December 10 Ukraine observed the International Day of Human Rights. Five years ago the Ukrainian leadership ratified the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms,...

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...

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...

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...

President Viktor Yushchenko has signed Directive No. 1260/2005-rp, dated Dec. 2, 2005, on measures to perpetuate the memory of James Mace, who was a public figure and researcher of the 1932-1933...

European Parliament members still cherish the hope that Ukraine will some day join the European Union, while European Commission and EU Council bureaucrats are refraining from this kind of forecast....

Condoleezza Rice last visited Ukraine four years ago. Since then much has changed in the lives of Ukrainians and in the life of the American guest herself. In 2001 she visited Kyiv as the president’s...

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...

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...

Maryna Zamyatina, editor of the English-language digest of The Day, and Viktor Zamyatin, a well-known journalist specializing in foreign affairs, are the proud parents of a baby boy. They say that...