Hanna Hopko

Over the 20 years of independence none of the prime mi-nisters or presidents managed to accomplish the single most important feat for the nation: to stop (and reverse) Ukraine’s demographic collapse. We were 52 million when we regained our independence. Now we are only 45 million and 770...

Forestry professionals have been heatedly debating about reforms of late. Nobody doubts their necessity, only what model should be used: Russian, German, Latvian or Polish? How to combat illegal logging? Who are the main crooks? These are complicated issues, and experts are racking their minds...

Will the development of nuclear energy save the environment? The issue is increasingly being discussed by politicians, scientists and ordinary citizens around the world. Experts from influential agencies, such as the IAEA, many US research centers, and some countries, believe that it is...

April 16 is The Day of Environmental Protection. For Ukraine the topic is too urgent to attract the attention of the society to it just once a year, since in the sphere of ecology, regardless of whether it concerns water, air, earth, forests, or waste utilization, there are many dangers and...

Do you believe that Ukrainian soil can properly feed you, your family, the whole country, and at least 100 million people other countries to boot? If so, wealth should come not only to the state but also to every individual who is, by the Constitution of Ukraine, a co-owner of the people’s...

An ineffective agrarian policy based on the theory of chemical farming has led Ukrainians, the owners of the “breadbasket of Europe,” to buy staples at world prices or consume imported foods. The fact that Ukrainian markets are saturated with foreign products, like cucumbers, tomatoes, or corn...

Long ago academics proved that a country, 70 percent of whose citizens do not have a secondary technical education, has no future, Volodymyr Halytsky, director of the State Employment Center of Ukraine, told The Day. The Ukrainian government must invest knowledge in the economy instead of using and...

The water shortage in Central Asia is turning into a real threat to people and the environment, more so than the shortage of oil and natural gas in a region with astounding reserves of fossil fuels. This summer the region faces water shortages because the quantity of snow has shrunk by half, and...

The Swiss Embassy in Ukraine and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) recently unveiled the “Strategy for Cooperation with Ukraine for 2008-2010: Moving Closer to European Standards. “The Swiss are the most efficient donors in Ukraine: in 1997 the mortality rate was extremely high...

With every passing day, water is becoming the cause of increasingly more conflicts among people, entire regions, and states. Aware that pure water and clean air and soil are more precious than oil and gas, the international community is trying to find more effective ways to solve environmental...