№5, (2007)

“Kostia, I never had such a feeling as when I met you. You are an extraordinary person with a big heart. I wish you the best of luck in your life.” “Dear Kostia, you are a good student, friend, and...

How many theaters does a city need? And a capital? For instance, there are more than five hundred of them in Paris — of different forms of ownership, organization, artistic profiles and genres, of a...

The possible deployment of elements of an anti-ballistic missile defense system on the territory of the Czech Republic and Poland is being widely discussed in the political circles of Europe, Russia...

Yevhen Marchuk was the first head of independent Ukraine’s secret police, Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrainy (SBU). He is the author of the bill “On the Security Service of Ukraine” that was passed in...

Last Friday the Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the law “On the Cabinet of Ministers” by a majority of 240 votes. But these are not the amendments the president demanded. Some time ago Viktor...

Feb. 13 1942: The forcible Nazi deportation of Ukrainians to the Third Reich begins. 1960: The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a resolution setting up factory schools as well as...

The Day’s correspondents attended a board meeting at the Makiivvuhillia state-run coal mine, chaired by Coal Industry Minister Serhii TULUB. Ukraine’s coal industry is becoming an area of very...

My meeting with Shigeo Katsu, the vice-president for the Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank, took place on Feb. 6 when the World Bank Mission opened a new office in Kyiv. Katsu pursued...

Such world-scale catastrophes as the Ukrainian Holodomor of 1932-33 will never be perceived by society as a theoretical academic issue, a problem of purely scholarly importance. The tragedy of the...

I would like to thank you for publishing Natalia Dziubenko-Mace’s message to us (“Political sabbath on a grave,” The Day, no. 4, Tuesday, 6 Feb. 2007). We must all defend James Mace, his cause, and...

It seems that both Ukraine and the European Union are sticking to their positions. Kyiv keeps insisting on including the prospect of EU membership in the text of the agreement, even in the form of a...

It looks as though Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko’s working visit to Germany was a success this time. He finally met Chancellor Angela Merkel, which he failed to do last year. On Oct. 3, 2006...

Fourteen US senators have proposed a bill to the US Senate on the necessity for Georgia and Ukraine to join NATO and for financial support to help these countries enter the North Atlantic alliance....

Serhii Bukovsky’s film Say Your Name, whose premiere in October 2006 was one of the most important cinema events of the season, will now be seen by the public at large. The film will be screened at...

The bad news swept through Ukraine last week. The Book Museum in the Lutsk Tower, a 15th-century architectural site, is being destroyed by a parasitic fungus that has attacked the tower walls. “In...