№9, (2009)

NEW YORK — The upcoming G-20 meeting is a make-or-break event. Unless it introduces practical measures to support the countries at the periphery of the global financial system, global markets will...

The World Theater Day is traditionally marked on March 27. On this day the winners of Ukraine’s most prestigious Kyiv Pectoral Award are announced in Kyiv. This award was founded by the Kyiv branch...

In shadowboxing the shadow has never beaten the boxer. Ukraine’s economy is an altogether different story: it constantly loses to shadow business. The latest such defeat was suffered on March 17 when...

It is hard to overestimate the importance of the fact that Metalist advanced to the Round of 16 for the soccer fans in Kharkiv. Metalist became the first team in the history of Kharkiv to reach such...

The Social Study Agency (ASD) recently carried out an all-Ukrainian poll entitled “The Need in a New Political Force in the Context of Electoral Preferences of Ukraine’s Population.” The survey was...

In order to overcome the crisis, the Ukrainian leadership is seeking possibilities to get loans from the rich states of the Arab Gulf (they insist on this name, perceiving Tehran’s hegemonistic...

The most recent session of the Diplomatic Club of the Open Ukraine Foundation turned out to be quite out of the ordinary. The US managing Editor of The Financial Times Chrystia Freeland spoke before...

17th March was a truly Ukrainian day at the European Parliament in Brussels. On this day, the conference titled “All children deserve a future” under my patronage celebrated the achievements of...

March 24 1935: A monument to Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko, designed by the sculptor Matvii Manizer, is unveiled in Kharkiv. March 25 1993: The National Central Interpol Bureau is founded...

The regional office of the Germany-based Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) in Ukraine and Belarus has organized a visit of a group of Ukrainian experts to Berlin to attend the...

Oleh Skrypka and The Day have almost a five-year history of contacts and cooperation. On June 18, 2004, the newspaper carried a big-size announcement of the Dream Country ethnofestival, an...

The president of Ukraine recently signed the Law “On Developing the 2009-2013 National Program to Secure Prevention of HIV Infection, Treatment, Care for and Support of HIV-Infected and AIDS-...

There is no doubt that the economic crisis has affected not only the pockets but also the souls of Ukrainians. The need to survive can have an adverse effect on people’s moral stability. Many experts...

Despite its immense popularity in the early 1990s, the People’s Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) did not manage to accumulate the support of the Ukrainian citizens in order to come to power. Relying on...

For several months we have been able to see People’s Artists of Ukraine Ada Rohovtseva and Bohdan Stupka with children afflicted by Down syndrome on Kyiv’s billboards. There are also social ads in...