№7, (2001)

February 27: 1939. The First Congress of the Ukrainian Composers opened, creating the Union of Composers. 1990. The USSR Supreme Soviet established the institute of the President of the Soviet...

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...

“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...

The Security Service of Ukraine will monitor information carried by various telecommunication systems, doing so in strict accordance with the law, the SBU site read (www.sbu.gov.ua) on St. Valentine...

Only politicians who promise pie in the sky and boast of Ukraine’s so-called economic victories can benefit from the target 4% economy growth projected for 2001. Such are the findings of a survey...

Scholarships for the best teachers is rather unusual but quite practical in Ukraine. A presentation of a scholarship fund for the teaching staff of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy National University (UKMA)...

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...

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...

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...

Having worked at the original Harvard and now teaching at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, which is as close as Ukraine can come to the august institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I have to applaud the...

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma’s visit to Moldova slated for February 20 has been postponed. The Moldovan presidential press service informed Interfax that this was because of the “need for more...

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...

Muscovites seem to know pretty well about recent developments in Ukraine. This is not only thanks to the analytical articles, reports, or interviews given by the active participants of our political...

There is enough food for thought; shutting down three power units in Chornobyl and the social protection program for the residents of Slavutych will require $1.5 billion in 15 years. Another $768...

During the recent air strike against Iraq the US and British pilots hit less than half their targets, the Associated Press quotes a US Defense Department official as saying. The Pentagon declared...