№9, (2012)

The Czech News Agency (CTK) informed that on February 8 the Czech Senate (the Upper cham­ber) voted for the direct pre­sidential elections. In Decem­ber 2011 the Cam­ber of Deputies (the Lower...

Though politicians represent the country, it is the intellectuals who create it. It is them who establish standards of moral values that the majority will take as an example. Even if the cultural...

MP Taras Chornovil withdrew from the Reforms for the Sake of the Future group of MPs after The Day’s journalist Olena Yakhno caught him completely unawares, asking for comment on MP Zabzaliuk...

The Day’s experts comment on Zbigniew Brzezinski’s idea of transferring Council of Europe HQ to Kyiv, the ancient capital city of Kyivan Rus’. If Ukraine doesn’t move in...

1919: The Soviet of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree on the confiscation of former private banks’ capital. 1921: The Ukrainian SSR and Lithuania sign a peace...

On the eve of Euro-2012 Ukraine that is not capable and is not willing to solve the problem of homeless dogs has gained wide publicity all around the world. Cinema stars, European organizations...

While the Ukrainian leadership is building yesterday’s model, Russia is seeing public rallies which Valentyn Nalyvaichenko thinks will have far-reaching consequences. In his words, these events,...

Last week the nation got a new defense minister, Dmytro Salamatin. The first response to this appointment was sheer astonishment. To the media this man is primarily known as an active participant...

Book The Armenians of Dnipropetrovsk Region: Past and Present has been published in Dnipropetrovsk. This is the first publication of a series on the ethnic minorities’ experiences in the region....

Businesspeople point out poorer quality of customs procedures in the second quarter of 2011. The results of the Customs Index presented recently by the European Business Association (EBA) prove it....

In February and March the audiences of Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia will see a series of authorial photo exhibits by the Ukrainian journalist, The Day’s special reporter Mykola KHRIIENKO. The...

The presidential campaign is gaining momentum, and videos promoting the candidate from the “power party” are gradually filling up the prime time on both major state Russian TV channels. One of the...

NEW YORK – The eccentric Bengali intellectual Nirad C. Chaudhuri once explained the end of the British Raj in India as a case of “funk,” or loss of nerve. The British had stopped believing in their...

Donetsk tends to support the rights of social classes and groups. Last autumn we permanently heard the news from the Chornobyl disaster fighters’ camp. Now the social movement “Ukraina bez kholopiv”...