Mariana Oliynyk

On September 14 Yulia Tymoshenko made it clear that she and Viktor Yushchenko will not even be following “parallel courses.” In an interview with the Associated Press she said that Yushchenko “was picking up Kuchma’s baton and wanting to get rid of me in the same way.” That is how the ex-prime...

Sunday’s inauguration of Ukrainian president-elect Viktor Yushchenko differed from previous ones not only because it was held at the Verkhovna Rada and on the Maidan, but also because it featured an attractive combination of protocol and festivities with millions of Ukrainians enthusiastically...

Among the topics discussed during the course of this election campaign have been quite a few that were debated prior to the 1994 presidential elections, including the establishment of Russian as the second official language, dual citizenship, and others. The Hegelian dialectic alone certainly...

What are Ukraine’s national interests and how is one to defend them in the severe competition of geopolitical alliances, given a variety of scenarios? Several weeks ago, The Day wrote about a debate on the subject, involving Ukrainian lawmakers. This time we offer the reader expert views on the...

What is today’s Russia? What possibilities does it give Ukraine and what problems does it create? What can we, in our turn, offer Russia and how can we help it? What kind of Russia do we need? With these far from traditional but to our mind important questions, our journalists set off to a round...

Viktor Yanukovych, governor of Donetsk oblast, became the tenth Premier of Independent Ukraine, on November 21, with 234 ayes out of 237 deputies (two abstained). In addition to stated support from the nine, Yanukovych received votes from 12 of 16 independent deputies, including Our Ukraine’s...

Prior to this round table, The Day was visited by Yuri Sayenko, doctor of sciences in economics, head of the social expertise department, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Institute of Sociology, who presented the chief editor with a booklet containing the institute’s studies and poll turnouts during...

Leonid Kuchma’s June 12 cadre allocations included the appointment of the United Social Democrat and leader of the SDPU(O) faction Viktor Medvedchuk head of the Presidential Administration. Without doubt this has attracted the greatest media interest. Predicted by some and totally unexpected by...

The new parliament, starting on May 14, reached the stage of forming fractions on May 16. At the morning session the chairman, Valery Konovaliuk, announced that six fractions were officially registered in Verkhovna Rada: the Socialist (22 deputies), Tymoshenko Bloc (23), United Social Democrats (37...

Viktor Yushchenko took precisely a week in responding to Volodymyr Lytvyn’s statement that For a United Ukraine is prepared to serve as the nucleus of the future parliamentary majority. His response came at a meeting of Our Ukraine deputies at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy on April 17. If anything, it...