№9, (2012)

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...

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...

The Ukrainians will have soon to forget about traveling to trade-union-run health centers. The state is going to privatize and put them up for a big international auction. The ostensible reason is...

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...

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,...

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...

The Council Cabinet of Ukraine approved the list of coal mines that can be given on concession. The list is in the decree No.71 of January 11, 2012 placed on the government’s official website. 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...

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...

Some express their “active” civil position in the public transport loudly criticizing inert politicians who cannot organize removing the snow from the roads; some complain in the evening in the...

A beautiful tapestry triptych Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv, and Their Sister Lybid made by a unique artist Ivan-Valentyn Zadorozhny was presented at the fifth Biennale of Historical Painting that took place...

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...

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....

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”...