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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...

February 22: 1945. The USSR Council of People’s Commissars decided to build a subway in Kyiv (the first stage was commissioned in 1960). 1994. A Ukrainian diplomatic representation was officially...

On February 16 Verkhovna Rada successfully passed the first stage of the would-be “end of the parliamentary world” as SPU leader Oleksandr Moroz had predicted the date would mark the Ukrainian...

“NATO is interested in Ukraine carrying out effective defense reform and will constantly support this process. The alliance will help conduct an expert assessment of all variants of the reform, but...

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...

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...

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...

Acting President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. has signed a decree restoring the so-called special departments (counterintelligence cells — Ed.) in the army. In Soviet times, the...

Odesa’s authorities have demonstrated their traditional diligence in complying with Moscow’s “insistent request” that an end be put to the activity of the Chechnya Information Bureau functioning...

Ukraine has presented official information on the quantity of its arsenals and army strength for the consideration of thirty other countries, which are signatories to the Conventional Forces in...

There is an opinion that the problem of symbols is artificial and out of place, that it is not the time to argue about symbols when this country is in crisis and we have seek compromises here, too. I...

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,...

Those who have known him a long time often recall (proudly or venomously): “I knew him when he was still...” perhaps as a kind of compensation. The “Internationale” has a line, “We have been naught,...

“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...

The gathering pace of globalization, especially of financial markets; the transition of many countries from planned to market economies; and the long-standing plight of impoverished peoples all offer...