№5, (2001)

Kyiv has seen an organized traffic- blocking street procession aiming to express distrust in the authorities. A host of flags, a long stream of people, a few clashes between the opposed groups on...

On February 7 the government Committee for Social and Humanitarian Development proposed that public sector wages be raised by 25% as early as March 1. However, this rise, as well as that of pensions...

The capital’s Cultural Heritage Museum hosted the Alphabet or the World’s Primer one-man show by the renowued Ukrainian painter Yuri Nikitin. The display emerges as the author’s deliberation of...

On January 23 an Internet publication, Russky zhurnal (Russian Journal), came up with an article, “Ukraine in the System of International Relations.” The authors obviously expected that their...

I recall how over three years ago Editor-in-Chief Larysa Ivshyna, English Language Desk Editor Liudmyla Humeniuk, translator George Sklyar, and I sat and discussed the project that produced The Day....

February 13: 1945. Soviet troops took Budapest from the Nazi Germans. 1974. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and stripped him of Soviet citizenship....

Many are now suggesting a dialogue between the authorities and the opposition as a realistic way to ride out the political crisis. The Day decided to ask experts what they think should be the...

The twenty-first issue of Kommersant-Ukraina did not go to press on February 7. The printers, the Kyivska Viyskovo-Kartohrafichna Fabryka (Kyiv Military Cartographic Plant), in violation of the...

Try to imagine Ukraine without its watery Dnipro majestically and proudly rolling down toward the Black Sea. Immortalized and glorified in folk songs and historical legends, the Dnipro or Slavutych...

February 8, the Verkhovna Rada scheduled Prosecutor General Mykhailo Potebenko’s progress report for February and the date will be designated by the Conciliation Council. Meanwhile People’s...

This title is taken from an article published in January 1976 by William Rees-Mogg, then Editor in Chief of The Times, the famous London daily, under the same title: “The Next 25 Years.” I saved it...

Another scandal broke out in Ukraine quite recently, following Vadym Rabynovych’s speech in Germany at the presentation of German journalist Rott’s book which, among other things, traces the history...

After my colleague Valentyna Zakharchenko, editor-in-chief of the magazine Parostok [Sprout], finished presenting copies of her publication to the participants in the jubilee concert and winners of...

Last issue we mistakenly identified His Excellency Kemal Harrazi as the foreign minister of Iraq. Actually, Ukraine had the honor to host IRANIAN Foreign Minister Harrazi We regret the error and hope...

Friday before last saw the presentation of the English language website of Ukraine’s State Tax Administration (www.sta.gov.ua/english). In his introductory speech State Tax Administration Director...