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The Day has more than once stressed its interest lately in the appointment of Ivan Drach as chairman of the newly-formed State Committee for Information Policies, Television, and Radio. For it is...

Kyiv recently hosted for the first time an away session of the 19 permanent NATO ambassadors with NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson at the head. The Day’s Viktor VORONIUK asked Hendrick Biegman,...

The Black Sea Navy is still the Achilles heel in the Moscow-Kyiv relationship. The basic naval accords, signed and then ratified by the Russian and Ukrainian Parliaments, cover only part of the...

Reform is the political watchword of Ukraine and the current generation has been hearing it for a year and a half. Its magic helped Leonid Kuchma be reelected as he managed to convince the electorate...

Serhiy Peresunko, Valentyn Novikov, and Oleksandr Tkachuk, leaders of the Social Democratic Union (SDS), held a press conference on March 16 devoted to Ukrainian-Iraqi relations. Messrs. Peresunko...

Europe has suffered a defeat. This is how we should perhaps assess the results of the first round of elections of a new International Monetary Fund director. The single Western European candidate...

My professional duties brought me the other day to the reception in honor of the winners of the Hugo Grotius Prize (named for Dutch humanist and jurist Huig de Groot) awarded by Moscow journal...

The fragmentation of forces on the Left political flank is picking up momentum. It seems we will soon have to report exactly in this style, reminiscent of Soviet reports on harvest campaigns, on the...

President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine said it was an “absolutely correct” decision to put this country on the list of UN Secretary General’s friends, joining the US, France, Germany, Russia, and Great...

Ukraine has managed to restructure its $2.7 billion foreign commercial debt, thus avoiding formal default, the Dow Jones Newswires Agency believes. The latter reports, quoting representatives of the...

February 24 marked the fourth anniversary of the People’s Democratic Party (NDP), Ukraine’s first attempt to institutionalize a party of power as a party. This was done in order to create what NDP’s...

Children kill themselves by jumping off roofs, out of windows, hanging themselves, and cutting their wrists. They take their own lives, hoping to enter a different happier world where one and all...

I do not pick what goes into this newspaper, and sometimes I have to openly voice my disagreement. This is the case with the material “What Criteria Should Be Used in Assessing Reform?” by Les...

Serhiy MOSKVYN, Chairman, Verkhovna Rada Business Legislation Subcommittee: Any credit is good so long as it can be put to effective use and pays off. Our relationships with the International...

The sooner the Constitutional Court rules on the President’s referendum decree, the more passions rage over the issue and the more interesting and mysterious events are unfolding around the...