Natalia Potapchuk

The Chernihivski Berehy Publishing House has just published the historical and ethnographic almanac Chernihivshchyna Incognita (The Unknown Chernihiv Region). The Day’s regular readers must have immediately noted a close resemblance between this title and that of one of our newspaper’s standing...

As a rule, new people come to power with new goals, including new foreign policy goals. “Viktor Yushchenko’s overriding goal is to ensure Ukraine’s full membership in the European Union,” Oleh Rybachuk, one of Yushchenko’s closest associates said recently. He added that like the countries that...

The enterprise to which I once entrusted my property privatization certificate recently paid me twenty-two hryvnias, my four years of dividends. When I broke this news to some of my acquaintances, they sincerely, albeit jokingly, congratulated me. For the majority of them, small-scale shareholders...

Members of two Chernihiv-based civic organizations, the oblast Chornobyl Union of Ukraine and the municipal Union of People Disabled by Chornobyl, have sent a letter to President Leonid Kuchma, stating their objections to Ukraine’s draft budget for 2005 in the section dealing with financing of...