Olha Vasylevska

The National Agency of Ukraine for Effective Use of Energy Resources (NAER) is changing its tactic. From now on, it will not only promote alternative sources of energy, but also deal with economic motivation. The NAER board announced this informal decision in Kyiv the other day. No decision was...

Ukraine has just participated a second time in a meeting of the 42 countries that signed the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. Olena Mykolaichuk, chairperson of the State Nuclear Regulatory Committee of Ukraine, said that this...

As though in response to Russia’s gas ultimatums, the last one coming from Gazprom’s deputy head Aleksandr Ryazanov, concerning price increases (up to $120-130 per thousand cubic meters), Naftohaz Ukrainy is increasing its own extraction. Last Friday two gas fields were unveiled in Komyshnia and...

The process of integrating with Europe is gaining momentum and increasingly perceived in Ukraine as a real factor of domestic economic growth. “The positive consequences of the potential creation of a free trade area are much broader than even Ukraine’s admission to the WTO,” Deputy Minister of the...

On the eve of this year’s Chornobyl anniversary, nuclear power engineering has become an especially acute topic. In particular, a new concept for the development of Ukraine’s fuel-energy complex was discussed at a meeting of the Ukrainian Nuclear Society held late last week. Nuclear experts appear...

During the first international conference “Hotel 2006” held in Kyiv several weeks ago Ukraine was described as the most promising European country in terms of the hotel business. However, this has nothing to do with positive qualitative changes that have occurred in the domestic segment of tourism...

In 2007 Ukraine’s state budget deficit will match or even surpass this year’s, First Deputy Finance Minister Viktor Kalnyk told a press conference. Allowing for all duly approved proposals concerning increased spending and easier tax burden, the finance ministry predicts that it will be necessary...

The ancient city of Kamyanets-Podilsky recently hosted two events organized by The Day: a presentation of the latest books of The Day’s Library Series, which turned into a well attended readers’ conference, and the launch of The Day’s annual photo exhibit. Despite the pre-election mood in the...

Odesa’s Maxim Gorky State Research Library hosted the presentation of three books from The Day’s Library Series: Wars and Peace, Day and Eternity of James Mace, and Klara Gudzyk’s Apocrypha. Since the members of the Odesa community were not familiar with these publications, once again the...

On the eve of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine, Ostroh Academy National University sought to unite politics and morality during an international scholarly conference entitled “Morality and Politics in the Modern World.” The meeting was organized by Ostroh Academy in collaboration with the...