№55, (2010)

Ukraine is to enter a new stage of globalization, which is leading to radical changes in the economic structure of the world’s leading states. The 2008 financial crisis forced the real economic...

  Maidan-INFORM reported that a class had been held at one of Lviv’s high schools on the subject “The First Soviet Occupation of Western Ukraine (1939-41).” This lecture...

Last year this newspaper launched the James Mace Civic Stand Prize for achievements in journalism. It was to be awarded to the authors of articles in The Day that took a strong position on...

Kyrgyzstan becomes a parliamentary republic The recent elections in Kyrgystan to the Zhogorka Kenesh – a unicameral legislature, consisting of 120 deputies – made this country a...

Is Ukraine heading towards authoritarianism or, still worse, dictatorship? Formally at least, the road is wide open. The Constitutional Court ruling of October 1, 2010, was a clear demonstration of...

Perhaps, the first reform, as it is called among the government clique, is the judicial reform, i.e., the new and already effective Law “On the Judicial System and the Status of Judges.” After heated...

“And entering into the field, he began to preach to the birds which were on the ground, and suddenly all those also on the trees came round him, and all listened while St. Francis...

1552: Troops under Ivan the Terrible’s command seize Kazan. After overwhelming the Kazan Khanate, the Russian tsar proceeds to subjugate the Astrakhan Khanate. 1920: The Russian Soviet Federative...

Now that Dynamo Kyiv’s fan’s emotions have calmed down a little, after the team’s disgrace on the European arena, the discharge of Valery Gazzaev was not entirely unnoticed but was nevertheless taken...

A project named “I Am the Guardian of the Family Hearth,” aimed at the social integration of teenage girls, was launched in Kyiv. It is supposed to teach teenage girls from vulnerable social strata...

Dnipropetrovsk – The local Roman Catholic congregation fears a corporate raid on St. Joseph’ Church that was returned to the faithful last year. The church lawsuit lasted for over a decade after the...

A historical monument of architecture, the building of the Cherkasy Wedding Palace, will soon undergo major modifications, including an extensive restoration of the facade, and a complex neighborhood...

On October 7, Kyiv cyclists held a protest action next to the Kyiv City Council building. According to UNIAN reports, they demanded that the deputies vote for the draft bylaw “On establishing free...

October 5 marked Serhii Onyshchenko’s 90th anniversary. The artist was born in Horokhiv. Already as a child he showed a talent for painting, which is no surprise, as his father was a renowned...

CAMBRIDGE – Global government is unlikely in the twenty-first century, but various degrees of global governance already exist. The world has hundreds of treaties, institutions, and regimes...