Olha Korniychuk

If Ukraine will not come to the European Union, the latter will go to Ukraine. This paraphrase of a well-known saying perhaps best describes the Europe Day observed by Kyiv during the last weekend, for the fourth time. The official festivities were staged on a high level, with lots of bureaucratic...

The Mercedes S-500 recently purchased by Naftohaz Ukrainy has been offered for public sale, Interfax-Ukraine quotes the company’s PR department as saying. This move comes days after President Yushchenko ordered Naftohaz chief Oleksiy Ivchenko to sell his new car. Ukraine’s leader also said he would...

If a string of comments on the resolution the European Parliament passed the other day is anything to go by, Ukraine and the European Union have made a breakthrough in their relations. Yet the analysis of the not-so-simple domestic situation in both the EU and Ukraine shows that the “integration...

Ukraine is preparing to hold its Year in Georgia. The ceremonial conclusion of the Year of Georgia in Ukraine was recently held in Kyiv. The closing soiree at the Taras Shevchenko National Opera starred the world-famous Georgian State Dance Company Sukhishvili-Ramishvili. The 90-minute show proved...

European politicians are stating with satisfaction that the issue of Ukraine’s admittance or nonadmittance to the European Union is no longer on the agenda. At least this is the opinion of leading Ukrainian politicians, who have finally achieved consensus on Ukraine’s European integration. This...

The European Union has decided once and for all to stop discussing the limits and timeframe of its expansion. Two weeks ago the EU’s legislative body, the European Parliament, adopted a resolution instructing the EU’s executive body, the European Commission, to issue a report on establishing the...

Are there any grounds for ‘Europessimism?” This was the main question of a roundtable held at The Day ’s editorial office with the participation of Borys TARASIUK, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; Ian BOAG, head of the European Commission Delegation to Ukraine; Oleksandr CHALY,...

European integration has been a priority direction of the Ukrainian leadership’s foreign policy for more than a year. But many obstacles have been cropping up on this road. When Leonid Kuchma was in power, the European Union would brush off official Kyiv’s declarations, interpreting them as an...

The freedom of one individual ends where the freedom of another begins: this is the bottom line of the press conference “Freedom and Responsibility: Seeking Mutual Understanding” held last Friday in Kyiv. According to the conference participants from Ukraine’s Muslim organizations and Islamic...

The international community is closely following the election campaign in Ukraine. Last week great interest was aroused among Western analysts by the statement of the Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych, who said that any revision of Ukraine’s course toward European integration is out of the...