№7, (2001)
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Will Ukraine’s Food Grain Last Until Next Harvest?
On February 19 a government delegation led by Minister of Finance Ihor Mitiukov, returned from Georgia where it held talks on a loan being given this country of 45,000 tons of grain.
Perhaps this...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Dnipropetrovsk Summit: Turning East, Challenging The West, or Domestic Political Bankruptcy?
I think it is hard to overestimate the symbolic meaning of the Dnipropetrovsk summit, especially the fact that the Ukrainian and Russian presidents met at a time of such political turmoil in Ukraine...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Will Paris Club Hear Signals Favoring Ukraine?
In the aftermath of the IMF decision to freeze its next tranche to Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko reacted in his typically optimistic vein, saying his government will be able to meet all...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Signs of Attention
Kyiv has recently been visited simultaneously by delegations from the German Bundestag and US Congress. These visits would have probably been immediately forgotten if conditions in Ukraine had been...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Kostiantyn RODYK: “About 85% of our publishers have no market prospects”
The Day has on more than one occasion carried materials dealing with the crisis gripping Ukraine’s book market. The topic has been debated for several years, more often than not coming down to the...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Ukraine Is No Longer a Child, It Should Enroll in The European University, believes Alexander Rahr
Alexander Rahr, program director on Russia and the CIS of the German Society for Foreign Policy, believes the cassette scandal will become history as soon as Ukraine begins pragmatic cooperation...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Nobel Prize Laureate Zhores Alfiorov Receives Vernadsky Award
On February 20 in Kyiv physics Nobel Prize winner and Russian Academy of Sciences Vice President Zhores Alfiorov received his next award, Ukrainian this time. By the decision of the Twenty-First...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
There will be no political dismissal of the prosecutor general
If Verkhovna Rada is to be the hub of political developments, the parliamentary day of February 22 ended with two negatives: Prosecutor General Mykhailo Potebenko was not dismissed, nor was a new...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
ILIA REPIN’S ZAPOROZHZHIAN COSSACKS: Hymn in Praise of a Free People
The great Russian artist Ilia Repin was always in love with Ukraine. There is ample evidence that his admiration of this land, history, and culture remained with him to his dying day at the age of 86...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
When it proposes ideas and better quality than the regime
Unlike the domestic electronic media, their foreign counterparts are giving considerably more room for direct dialogue between political opponents. As a result, both the government and opposition...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
In Praise of Stupidity
The Cinematographer’s House in Kyiv hosted the premiere of the Canadian-German production Eisenstein. One is hard put to refer critically to a film attracting such public attention. Indeed, the...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Volodymyr FILENKO: “Replacing one president with another will not solve all our problems”
“I am prepared for a long struggle,” said People’s Deputy Volodymyr FILENKO, one of the founders of the Forum of National Salvation, in an interview with The Day . He added he favors an...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Donated Pool
On February 19 a swimming pool for children aged from two to five years old was opened at Children’s Polyclinic No. 1 in Kyiv’s Kharkivsky district. The pool was restored due to the assistance of...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
GROUP OF US CONGRESSMEN EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN LEADERSHIP
An American congressional delegation after a February 22 meeting Thursday with Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko declared US support for the Ukrainian leadership, Interfax Ukraine reports...
27.02.2001 - 00:00
Oksana-Ksenia Quartet
The Triptych Gallery hosts the sixth traditional exposition Ksenia Day, featuring (also traditionally) only women artists named Ksenia or Oksana. This time it is Ksenia Khodakivska, Oksana Berbeka-...