Inna Biriukova

The Peresopnytsia Gospel, the holy book on which Ukrainian presidents swear the oath of loyalty, is now available in a thousand copies, thanks to the first facsimile edition published by the ADEF-Ukraina Publishers on the occasion of the 1,020th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus’. The...

The Day continues to monitor the situation connected with the inoculations against measles and German measles in Ukraine. The conflict between the state authorities and the Ukrainian medical community is becoming increasingly heated. International organizations are also getting involved. The World...

Environmentalists have concluded that Ukraine faces ecological genocide if radical changes are not made. For example, the centralized water supply does not conform to sanitary and bacteriological standards in 10- 12 and 5-6 percent of cases, respectively. In some areas of Ukraine, including the...

This year the international community will mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a kind of internal legal code that has had a tangible impact on the development of the legal system. It forms the basis of the Constitution of Ukraine, which guarantees the civil...

April 18 will mark one year since the Ukrainian delegation convinced the UEFA leadership into holding the UEFA Euro 2012 championship in Ukraine. How is Ukraine preparing for the games? This topic was discussed at a roundtable entitled “Euro 2012: Risk or Opportunity?” which was held on April 9 at...

“Help save our library! It is going to be thrown out on the street with all its books!” This was the gist of the appeal that was sent to The Day by Mykhailo VORONTSOV, an instructor at a Kyiv military college. Like many of his colleagues, he has been a member of the Lesia Ukrainka Public Library...

For over two years Petro Omelchuk, the head of the Republican Sound Recording and Printing House of the Ukrainian Association for the Blind, has been beating down the doors of City Hall, trying to prove his company’s legal right to the premises located at 4 provulok Shevchenka. The only printing...

The Ukrainian State Research Centre for Certification, Metrology, Standardization, and Consumer Right Protection (Ukrmetrteststandart) recently organized an unusual exhibit featuring shoddy and hazardous products, like irons and immersion heaters that explode when they are plugged in. Also on...

Last week Ukraine’s capital saw a strike of express minibus drivers, who threatened to hold a nationwide protest action unless their demands are met. The carriers are refusing to transport passengers because of low fares. They claim that single-trip fares ranging from 1 to 1.75 hryvnias no longer...

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, the civic organization Donetsk Memorial, and the Penitentiary Society of Ukraine have forwarded a letter to President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and Parliamentary Speaker Arsenii Yatseniuk...