№8, (2000)

Two weeks ago the probability of Kyiv Dynamo qualifying for the Champions League quarterfinals seemed like the chance for a tossed coin to land standing on its edge. The chance of the Kyivans’...

In different countries the Cabinet usually sums up its performance on the 100th day in office. With Viktor Yushchenko an exception from the rule will perhaps be the case, not so much due to the...

Our forefathers believed that the world was filled with changelings, some horrible and dangerous, others funny. You looked at one and saw a nice smiling face, then you blink and see an entirely...

The eleven people, who occupied last Thursday the Communist Party of Ukraine Central Committee premises in Kyiv, vacated them on March 10 at about one a.m. This group of young people calling...

Ukraine will be expelled from the Council of Europe if it holds a referendum counter to admonitions expressed by this organization, Hanne Severinsen, PACE rapporteur, told Radio Liberty on March 8,...

For quite a long time the national basketball team of Ukraine had not received such a resounding slap in the face as it did at the end of February in the final matches of the first leg of the Group D...

I entered the university at the height of the movement against the Vietnam War, which included its share of civil disobedience. I also once faced arrest but somehow managed to negotiate an...

Flowers seem to have two special days to emerge in full blossom in Ukraine: March 8 and September 1. These days are literally buried under flowers, although the bouquets present are essentially...

Since 1996, Ukraine has had its Constitution Article 10 of which reads: “Ukrainian shall be the official language of Ukraine.” Of course, this wording would be enough for law-abiding citizens and the...

Viktor Kyryk, head of the Foreign Ministry’s consular department, told at the conference called Ukraine’s Visa Policy: Ways to Reform It (organized by the Europe XXI Foundation) that this country...

The Verkhovna Rada developments of January and February were very long in the spotlight for all Ukrainian society. And although it is a bit too early to sum up Parliament’s velvet revolution, it is...

President Kuchma signed the bill On the State Budget of Ukraine for the Year 2000. At the same time, Interfax Ukraine reports, he addressed letters to Speaker Ivan Pliushch and Premier Viktor...

In its issue No. 7 of February 29, The Day carried an interview with Olha Mykytenko, a National Opera soloist, under the Culture rubric. The title itself perhaps suggested that the interview aimed to...

The first attempts to make reforms in the Ukrainian coal industry date from 1996. Previously, the industry employed 650,000 miners extracting 66 million tons of coal in 275 mines, with low efficiency...

Ukraine’s first small businesses are over ten years old (of course, those that have survived). Children of Ukraine’s first businessmen are young men and women, but Ukrainian society is still unsure...