№7, (2000)

The Day proposed those favoring and opposing Western aid to voice their views on its pages and will carry them starting with this issue. Hopefully, readers will join in the discussion. Please contact...

On February 21, the special interdepartmental work group, established by presidential order to identify new guidelines in the development of the nation’s Armed Forces with due account of current...

After celebrating in Kyiv his birthday on Wednesday February 23 Ukraine’s Prime Minister devoted Thursday to Kharkiv trying to find out (according to the official version) why the region (where,...

February 29: 1657. A delegation arrived in Chyhyryn from Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III with a proposal for peace with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1944. General of the Army Nikolai...

Ukrainian military servicemen have been called on to tighten their belts. The 2000 budget provides for no concessions which would make service in the Armed Forces even minimally attractive. Despite...

On February 24 Saint Petersburg buried Anatoly Sobchak, a prominent post-Soviet politician who had become one of our television heroes, a man to whom we had long got used to precisely like we now get...

Last week, in his annual address in Verkhovna Rada, the President said that the key tasks in solving the problem of corruption are “to effectively counteract the criminalization of relationships...

Today, we are receiving the kind of help the West is ready to provide. Take the is a graphic example of how the Ukrainian public can put such Western help to good sharply lowering its deficit,...

The change in the parliamentary leadership was accomplished as a result of the creation of the Right majority, which literally scratched and clawed power from the Left. For the first time in Ukraine’...

The Youth Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (MKUN, adherents of the late Stepan Bandera) picketed the Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv on February 22. Its press release declared action was organized as a...

Ukraine is living through hard times. The difficulties of the socioeconomic transformation also impact on the system of criminal code punishments. It has become fashionable to speak about the...

Early last year The Day tried to forecast the prospects of the Internet’s political resources in Ukraine. How many of those predictions have now come true a year later after the Verkhovna Rada...

The creation and consolidation of postcommunist uncivil society was a completely natural sociological phenomenon for Ukraine in the late twentieth century: it is precisely in it that the social...

Ukraine is once again being inspected by the Council of Europe (by now standard procedure) to see how this country is coping with its commitments undertaken over four years ago. This time, however,...

The 14th special Ukrainian helicopter detachment as part of KFOR started being relieved in Kosovo on February 22. The Ukrainian pilots’ performance was commended by a number of officials, including...