№7, (2006)

Abortions are to be banned. News about this glaring injustice inflamed the public last week. At the heart of the matter is a resolution by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to toughen procedures to...

Before last weekend Kyiv’s Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art Museum hosted the first spring masni (lit. “fat”) vechornytsi soirees rich in food and drink pending Lent. Oleh Skrypka has been organizing...

The Ukraine-3000 Foundation has implemented the medical program “From Hospital to Hospital,” instituted a medal “For the Development of National Cinema,” organized the “Dreamland” international...

Last Friday Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv hosted the 4th International Scholarly and Practical Conference entitled “Shevchenko’s Spring.” At the meeting of the history section the...

Are there any grounds for ‘Europessimism?” This was the main question of a roundtable held at The Day ’s editorial office with the participation of Borys TARASIUK, Minister of Foreign...

The debates over the bill “On Securing Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men” continued since 1999. Only after six years the Ukrainian parliamentarians have managed to find middle ground...

March 7, 1921. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR approved a decree On Organizing Workers’ Faculties to educate workers in a Party spirit. March 8, 1922. The All-Ukrainian...

It finally happened: the first film of the post-revolutionary series called Orange Sky has been released and immediately caused problems for this reviewer . How can a person review a film based...

Now that Ukraine has market economy status, the next destination points are the WTO and EU, where we won’t be admitted without European rules. Therefore, our ranking bureaucrats have turned to Europe...

Until now, Lviv had no opportunity to explore The Day’s annual photography exhibit that represents the best photos of current realities. The City of the Lion had cause to be offended by this omission...

Strange as it may seem, Ukrainians still believe that the coming elections will change their lives for the better. Some 45 percent of surveyed Ukrainians feel optimistic about the general situation...

In Japan March 8 is Girls’ Day. In honor of women’s day in the Land of the Rising Sun, an exhibit of traditional Japanese dolls has opened in Kyiv. This is a present to Ukrainian women on the eve of...

The week before last Kyiv hosted Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He is not the only German politician to have visited Ukraine in the period leading up to the March 2006 elections...

The European Commission’s vice-president Gunter Verheugen declared in a recent interview with Die Welt that all European countries will have joined the EU in 20 years except the countries of the...

In this season of politics party slates are filled with an unprecedented number of colorful personalities: journalists, singers, composers, astronauts, and others. There is another unusual category...