№9, (2004)

What do we associate spring with, especially the Italian Spring? With beautiful women, good music, light wine... A head-spinning spectacle, with people quickly falling in love, fixing dates. When men...

Ukraine is taking some sort of shape; it is changing. The Day tries to keep track of these dynamics. Our journalists have replied to questions about the kind of changes Ukraine is undergoing. After...

Halyna SOLOVIY, candidate in philology, doctoral student of the European Collegium of Polish and Ukrainian Universities, Lublin, Poland: “Study in Poland is prestigious and is rewarded...

As The Day has already reported, the Vatican’s Cardinal Walter Kasper met top hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, including Patriarch Aleksiy II of Moscow, late last month. As a result of these...

I am not sure that if I asked any ordinary Ukrainians on the street what associations the name Kazymyr Malevych and the word combination Black Square call up, the vast majority of them would smile...

The Cabinet of Ministers approved on March 3 the bill on establishing the Single Economic Space (SES). The document was immediately submitted to Verkhovna Rada for ratification. The governments of...

The debate on the need for tax exemptions to boost the country’s declining hotel business has entered its final stage. The State Tourism Administration has insisted on supporting the hotel business,...

On July 5 the Olympic torch relay will pass through Kyiv for the first time since Ukraine’s independence. This has been made possible thanks to the sponsors of the 2004 Olympics in Athens. For...

Ukraine is once again in the focus of world attention, having recently rated editorials in both the New York Times and Washington Post. The consensus seems to be that with a Russia growing more...

The Ukrainian army has servicewomen whose achievements are something that most young servicemen can only dream of. For example, Ukraine’s only female navigator, 1st Lt. Olena Demydchuk, serves in the...

Two practical questions can be asked of any political system: First, what distinguishes the political parties? Second, who is in charge? For a while in postcommunist Russia, the answers were...

Kyiv opera singers and ballet dancers touring Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, and France present their premieres and major current year repertory. The Ukrainian National Opera’s ballet troupe was the...

From March 1 to 5 Lviv’s Ivan Franko National University hosted the NATO Winter Academy, Euro-Atlantic Integration: an Instrument for Stability. The event was initiated by Lviv University, supported...

The Ukrainian government appears to have developed a fancy for borrowing money on the world market. First Vice Premier Mykola Azarov stated that he regarded the placement of seven-year eurobonds...

March 10: 1919. Ukraine and Poland signed an armistice. 1990. In Warsaw, a congress of the Ukrainian Socio-Cultural Society of Poland resolved to rename the organization as Association of...