Yevhen Morentsov

Blank spots in history exist for two reasons: either because there are no extant historical documents or eyewitness accounts, or because official propaganda, for ideological reasons, doled out information in carefully measured doses, suppressing individual events and names that the public was...

If ordinary Ukrainians were asked what they could remember most vividly about all those reforms underway for the past decade, 99.9% would point to (a) price jumps, varying in frequency in different years, and (b) privatization. Hard as they might, they would remember nothing about any other methods...

The German Goethe-Institut Int er Nationes Kyiv and The Day summed up the literary contest, Germany — Ukraine: What Was It Like? What Is It Now? What Will It Be Like?, and the photo contest, Change of Epochs, Change of Images. Opening the awards ceremony, Goethe Institute Director Johannes...

Now that Verkhovna Rada’s amendments to the laws On the Protection of Consumer Rights and On Advertising are in force, information relating to concerts, contests, and festivals must specify use of soundtracks with vocal, instrumental, or vocal-instrumental parts. The same is true of the so-called...

What topics are the most pressing for Ukrainian students? How do they solve them? How do they feel about the current realities? The Day polled Kiev- Mohyla Academy National University students in various departments. This was, of course, not a representative sample, for only those who wished filled...

Ukraine’s ice hockey national team has begun its final stage of preparation for play in the elite group A at the world championship starting on April 28 on the ice fields of Germany. Chief coach Anatoly Bohdanov invited for a training session almost thirty players most of whom play outside Ukraine...

There is the notion of ship’s damage tolerance in naval parlance, meaning that a ship can withstand so much damage on a combat mission, have so many years of service life, and how well she can be repaired after what damage. There are a number of methods to check damage tolerance, including...

On February 12 Kyiv’s Sports Palace hosted a prelim match of the North European Basketball League championship between Kyiv BK and Tallinn Kalev. The audience of 5000 watched an interesting and fruitful game which the Kyivans won 87:69. Before this match, Kyiv had ranked eighth in the charts,...

Ukraine’s national ice hockey team will be playing at the 2002 winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Our squad won this privilege, coming off third (after Germany and Belarus) in Olympic qualifier tournament which ended the Sunday before last in the capital of Norway. The Ukrainian hockey players...

The Ministry of Finance has drawn up a Cabinet of Ministers resolution On Streamlining the Number of Public Sector Employees. The latter has been sent to the relevant ministries and agencies for scrutiny and coordination. The cover letter states the draft was made in pursuance of Item 13 of Cabinet...