№6, (2003)

In the two years of its work in Ukraine, the Micro-Financing Bank (MFB) has given over 10,000 credits and micro-credits totaling $57,000,000. According to the Head of the bank’s Board of directors,...

Hanna Kolomyiets’ story is a dream come true. She has always wanted to work and paint in Italy. There is nothing new or original about her dream. Artists have always been strongly attracted to...

On February 14, Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma awarded a Princess Olha Order of the 1st Class to Danish national Lillan Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, founder and president of the Serge Lifar Foundation,...

In Poland, supposedly a Catholic country, there is a radio program and daily newspaper owned by Radio Maria , both public voices of a charismatic, xenophobic, and fundamentalist priest who loathes...

Last weekend, the interministerial commission for a complex solution to the Chornobyl problem, headed by the fuel-and-energy Vice Premier, Vitaly Haiduk, held a meeting at the nuclear power station,...

The week before last, Ukrhazvydobuvannia [Ukrainian Gas Extraction], a subsidiary of the Naftohaz Ukrayiny Inc., emerged for the first time as quite a powerful vertically- integrated facility...

The February 12 Verkhovna Rada hearing on the Holodomor , the Great Ukrainian Manmade Famine of 1932-33, was a triumph not of any one person, but of historical justice for millions who perished — not...

In a joint statement, the Ukrainian and Polish Presidents, Leonid Kuchma and Aleksander Kwasniewski, declared that Warsaw would institute liberal visa procedures for Ukrainian nationals, in keeping...

The contest had a difficult start, and not only due to financial difficulties. The issue of cost is a common problem for most contests. The shortcomings of national legislation have made sponsorship...

Steven Pifer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, former US ambassador to Ukraine, says the American government considers relations with Ukraine to be very...

One of the brightest figures in our early-17th-century history was Melety Smotrytsky, a talented writer, a language scholar, an erudite, a highly educated European-minded individual. He was deeply...

The parliamentary committee for fuel and energy resolved at an away session at Lysychansk to defer the decision on the privatization of Ukrnafta. Some opposition deputies proposed banning the sale of...

The Rev. Andriy has wed three couples at a regional hospice for terminally ill since it opened in Lutsk eight months ago. All of them were “about my mother’s age,” says Rev. Andriy. They lived...

Prof. James Mace, The Day’s consultant who stood by the cradle of the English language digest, marks his 51st birthday, February 18. He has been away for a couple of months, convalescing after a...

The life of Vaclav Havel, who is stepping down as president of the Czech Republic, could serve as inspiration for one of Havel’s own absurdist plays. Born in 1936 into one of the wealthiest Czech...