I read Den in the Ukrainian and The Day sometimes in the English when I find the Ukrainian very convoluted. The newspaper is excellent in many ways (the recent article on Cherkasy and Olinyk for example) as well as the various persons contributing or being interviewed.
What is lacking from the newspaper is more of a “critical” sense in the form of an editorial page. The Gongadze case is serious for Ukrainian democracy but I find very little in your newspaper that questions the process and activities of the Procurator General, the Ministry of Internal Affairs header by Yuri Kravchenko, and of course the SBU. All three in their behavior seriously threaten Ukrainian democracy.
THE DAY’S REFERENCE
In December 1990 Mr. Gayowsky arrived in Kyiv as Canada’s Consul General to Ukraine and later established Canada’s Embassy in Kiev in January 1992 as charge d’affaires.
In December 1991, immediately following the Ukrainian independence referendum and presidential election, he delivered Canada’s formal diplomatic recognition to President Kravchuk by a midnight ride to the President’s dacha accompanied by Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Zlenko. After retiring from Canada’s public service in February 1993 Mr. Gayowsky opened the office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Kyiv. In December 1994 he retired again to Ottawa. From Ottawa he has visited Ukraine annually and follows Ukrainian events on a daily basis via the Internet as well as maintaining contact with friends here.
