Pavlo Bulhak

For Ukraine’s small political parties even the 3 percent eligibility qualification to the Verkhovna Rada is an insurmountable obstacle, let alone 4 or 5 percent. There are more than a hundred small political structures in this country. Why so many? This is a multiparty system the Ukrainian way....

Forty-nine percent of Ukrainian citizens believe that Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko must guarantee democratic parliamentary elections in 2006 by refraining from direct participation in them. This follows from a poll conducted by the civic organization Ukrainian Democratic Circle. Of those...

The development of Ukraine’s economy and the transition to a post- industrial society are impossible without innovative activity. This is the gist of last week’s news conference organized by the Ukrainian Federation of Scientists, an association uniting 5,440 members. According to the federation’s...

The election marathon is drawing to a close, and it’s quite obvious whom Ukraine will have for its next president. Post-election Ukraine is looking forward to evolutionary changes free from any social upheavals. Analysts believe that in the coming weeks we will witness transformations in the power...

November 17 marked International Students Day. In Ukraine it was celebrated for the fifth year in a row by 2.5 million Ukrainians currently enrolled in higher educational establishments. There are 485 college students per 10,000 people, the highest index in all the post-Soviet countries. This year...

Russian expert Stanislav Belkovsky and Ukrainian political analysts Kostiantyn Bondarenko and Dmytro Vydrin believe that political consensus between Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko is the only way to secure the further advancement of democracy in Ukraine at the current stage of maximum...

The European Commission delegation has noted Ukraine’s high preparedness for the October 31 presidential elections. “Technically, everything has been done for successful polling on Election Day,” head of the European Commission delegation Thierry Mariani told a press conference last Thursday....

The previous issue of The Day carried a front-page letter from Anna Vakulenko, a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl residing in Mykhaylivka, Kirovohrad oblast. She answered our question “What do you think is wrong with the adult world?” addressed to Ukrainian children by posing several dozen questions of...