№9, (2003)

The European Commission adopted a document setting out a new framework for relations over the coming decade with Russia, the “Western new independent states” (meaning Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus),...

I am convinced that there can be no justified objections to the economic relevance of the statement signed by the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, concerning further efforts...

From the start of this year it began to seem that the Ukrainian-American relationship, which had undergone a most serious crisis last year, has started to gradually warm. It also seemed that United...

During the March holidays our beloved pop singer worked with tripled effort. On the eve of the holiday, renowned Israeli composer Tzvika Pik, author of the “Viva,” which won the Eurovision to...

The National Bank of Ukraine has lifted its 5% limitation introduced in the fall of 2001 on the exchange rate spread between the buy and sell prices for street currency exchanges. According to NBU...

I met orchestra conductor Roman Kofman the day before his departure to Germany as this season’s chief conductor of the Bonn Opera’s Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Shortly afterward he would conduct...

I completely support the ideas and conclusions that Prof. James Mace presented in his article, “A Candle in the Window” (The Day, No. 6, February 18) and especially with his proposal that a candle be...

The Day recently received Mufti Tamim Akhmed Mohammed Moutah, head of the Clerical Administration of the Muslims of Ukraine. Mufti is Arabic for “one who explains,” i.e., an adept of the Shariah, one...

As American and British troops prepare to invade Iraq, public opinion in these countries does not support war without UN authorization. The rest of the world is overwhelmingly opposed to war. Yet...

March 13 brought sad news: Yaroslava Stetsko, people’s deputy of Ukraine and chair of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, died in Germany. A Woman in the upper case, she lived a life...

(Continuation. See The Day of January 28 and February 11, 2003) III. THE “HOT” FEBRUARY OF 1654 The main lesson that Bohdan Khmelnytsky must have drawn from the...

The Ministry of the Economy intends to withdraw its tax code bill from Verkhovna Rada for substantial revision. Minister of the Economy and European Integration Valery Khoroshkovsky announced...

Two consecutive US nightclub tragedies have forced local residents to revise their attitude toward this kind of leisure. American sociologists claim on the basis of public opinion polls that clubbing...

The latest decisions of the European Union executive institutions and their leaders’ statements on the possible model for relations with Ukraine as a neighbor and shelving for indeterminate future...

On March 13, research fellows of the Ukrainian Institute for Social Research discussed the problem of preparing boarding school children for independent life and examined the possibilities of...