Maryana Oliynyk

“Treason” has always been one of the most commonly used words in the vocabulary of Ukrainian politicians. Sometimes, however, it is applied to those who do not deserve this appellation. The t-word and its synonyms have been especially popular in the last while. TV promotional clips are...

The undeniable answer is: truth. The life story of The Day’s interview subject Yevhen MARCHUK, leader of the Party of Freedom and the Yevhen Marchuk-Unity election bloc, provides additional answers to this question: strength also resides in wisdom and in unity, for without unity the country may...

The government crisis is dragging out dangerously: last Friday parliament adjourned for a winter recess without meeting the president halfway. The 9th session, the last one of the 4th-convocation Verkhovna Rada, will convene on Feb. 7. Despite President Yushchenko’s repeated appeals, the...

Time is running out: the schedule of the 2006 parliamentary elections states that nominations of candidates must be submitted by Dec. 25. More than 50 party and inter-party forums have been held in Kyiv in the past month. The top five are UNP leader Yuriy Kostenko; honorary chairman of the Party of...

Last Friday’s dismissal of Sviatoslav Piskun from his post as prosecutor general of Ukraine was not unexpected. Last week Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko, appearing on the 1 + 1 TV program “Idu na Vy,” declared that instead of “sitting in jail, “bandits” have been freely leaving this...

At last Friday’s press conference President Yushchenko focused on his new team, curbing corruption, relations with the opposition, the coming elections, and regional policies. The president spoke with representatives of 250 foreign and central Ukrainian and 190 regional media for two hours instead...

Yuriy Yekhanurov’s confirmation as prime minister does not mean that the governmental and political crisis is over. This is the conclusion of The Day’ s roundtable debate attended by Andriy YERMOLAYEV, director of the Sofia Center of Social Research; Vadym KARASIOV, head of the Institute of Global...

On September 20, 2005, after three long years, Ukraine’s parliament finally heard the report of the ad hoc parliamentary commission to investigate the Gongadze case. In the report Hryhoriy Omelchenko, head of this commission that investigates high-profile crimes, names Ukraine’s former president...

A new cabinet will be formed within a week. As a result of last Friday’s meeting between the president and the leaders of the various parliamentary factions, Viktor Yushchenko gave acting premier Yuriy Yekhanurov one week to hold consultations in the Verkhovna Rada about the ministerial candidates...

Our talk with Ukraine’s first president Leonid Kravchuk the evening before the series of resignations once again confirmed that Mr. Kravchuk is by far the only politician in this country (his successor does not count because he is out of politics) whose considerable presidential experience allows...