№6, (2000)

In its previous issue The Day wrote about Ukraine’s reaction to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement about alleged breaches of the lingual rights of the Russian ethnic minority in Ukraine. Over...

Many things in culture happen as though contrary to the established status. The twentieth anniversary of the Drevo (Tree) ensemble, marked earlier this month in the Small Hall of the Kyiv...

“We are very much worried about the situation surrounding the Ukrainian referendum,” Hanne Severinsen, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) emissary, told The Day on the eve of her...

Ukrainian roasters of natural coffee stunned us the other day: it turns out they have long been resentful of our compatriots being served various ersatz. Natalia Shapoval, manager of the Panorama...

Last night the phones at the editorial office never stopped ringing with people asking one question, How is Marchuk? The Friday before last, NSDC Secretary Yevhen Marchuk had a road accident on...

World Bank mission to draft the administrative reform in Ukraine ended its work last week. Its experts are finishing evaluation of Ukraine’s compliance with the preliminary conditions required by...

White stork became the bird symbol for the year 2000 in Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine agency reports. For the sixth consecutive year now, the Ukrainian Bird Protection Society has chosen this bird as the...

Last Tuesday, on the day of the eleventh anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, President Leonid Kuchma and Parliament Speaker Ivan Pliushch laid flowers at Kyiv’s monument...

(A response to Leonid Kravchuk’s interview with The Day, No. 3, February 1) I quite agree with those who bestow responsibility on the Orthodox Church for the backwardness of East Slav nations....

Inkos, the Ukrainian Innovation Center for International Educational Programs, held its presentation on February 18. The European Union supplied Inkos with 200,000 euros for the first two years,...

Long before Prince Volodymyr, considered by the Eastern Orthodox Church as the first baptizer of Rus’, Christianity was embraced by Prince Askold who, together with his brother Dir, ruled Kyiv in 860...

A budget item was heard in the second reading by the Verkhovna Rada on February 17 in the presence of the Cabinet and Premier Yushchenko invited to the parliamentary sitting. Oleksandr Turchynov,...

Two-thirds of all technical losses sustained by the energy industry are caused by the theft of electricity, President Kuchma declared at a sitting of the National Security and Defense Council on...

Late in the evening of February 17 a tragedy occurred at School No. 304 in Kyiv. The explosion was reported to the Fire Department at around 10:30 p.m. The fire was extinguished at 12:15 a.m.. Nine...

Chairman of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, has at last dotted the first i’s, announcing to the public what the European Union should achieve, when it should achieve it, and what will happen...