Natalia Trofymova

The President’s address to the people on August 24 with a proposal for the significant reform of the country’s political system has found considerable resonance in political circles and has given an excuse for comprehensive political debates. It has, however, gone right over the heads of the...

“I am prepared for a long struggle,” said People’s Deputy Volodymyr FILENKO, one of the founders of the Forum of National Salvation, in an interview with The Day . He added he favors an evolutionary path of development. What distinguishes Mr. Filenko from many other opposition leaders is that he...

Many are now suggesting a dialogue between the authorities and the opposition as a realistic way to ride out the political crisis. The Day decided to ask experts what they think should be the preliminary condition for this kind of a dialogue, what commitments the authorities and the opposition...

Former Premier of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko told the San Francisco District Court last Wednesday that he does not intend to plead either guilty or innocent. The text of this statement was submitted by Maryna Dovhopola, Mr. Lazarenko’s family lawyer in Ukraine. Explaining the reasons for this...

Despite the efforts by the leaders of what was once the mightiest national democratic political force in Ukraine, all the talk about the unification of Rukh remains just talk, creating the impression that the rift between the two officially registered Rukh organizations led by Yuri Kostenko and...

On November 18 Kyiv hosted the unifying congress of the Labor Solidarity of Ukraine Party incorporating five centrist parties: the Regional Revival Party, Party of Labor, Ukrainian Solidarity Party, Beautiful Ukraine, and the All-Ukrainian Party of Pensioners. As long ago as last June the...

The Dialogue Political Club held a regular session recently, with the philosopher Myroslav Popovych and political scientist Volodymyr Polokhalo (both well known in their fields) discussing two topics: The Political Culture of the Average Ukrainian and Ukrainian Elite as well as Poverty as not Just...

President Kuchma signed and forwarded to Verkhovna Rada two bills concerning the implementation of the last referendum, Press Secretary Oleksandr Martynenko told journalists last Wednesday in Ankara. He further announced that the first bill envisages changes in the law On the Status of the...

(Concluded from previous issue) WE’LL HAVE NO PLACE IN EUROPE, UNLESS WE LEARN TO FIRE PEOPLE IN ONE DAY The Day: Are there many people in Ukraine wishing to acquire property or to work for a private business? Y. H.: I can answer this with complete accuracy. We have a great many people...

There is a tradition of public servility in Ukrainian society: what do you think are the roots and the remedies for this illness? Leonid KRAVCHUK: Turning to Ukraine’s history, one can see that since roughly 1654 the country had been viewed as a colony, a frontier region of Russia....