Viktoriya Herasymchuk

President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine has vetoed the Law on the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals passed by the Verkhovna Rada on Sept. 8 on the grounds that it is imperfect. Interestingly, this step was welcomed by none others than protectors of animals. Tamara Tarnavska, president of the SOS...

Last Friday morning at the Pyrohiv Open-Air Museum of Folk Architecture was the scene of special activities. Instead of the customary calm and silence, the museum was bustling with about 400 unemployed people from Kyiv, who were enthusiastically cleaning up the compound. Among them were accountants...

Neither the House with Chimeras, the Independence Monument, nor Ukraine Palace is destined to experience the lot of a privatized historical site. These monuments, as well as 200 other historic buildings in Kyiv placed on a special list drawn up by Kyiv City Hall’s Department for the Protection of...

Olha is thirty now, but looks forty. She is a petite, thin, dark- haired woman with an emaciated face. She was brought back to her Ukrainian homeland last Friday. Before that, she lived for a year in Algeria, suffering terrible abuse from her husband. Olha was under lock and key for seven out of...

Crowds of people asking for help is a usual sight at the front entrances of the powers that be. These people have various problems, but they mostly need one thing: arrangements for an audience with the right kind of bureaucrats, maybe several lines written on a sheet of paper. In a word, they need...

The National Academy of Sciences is now in a state of nervous tension. Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, hit upon the following idea in a recent press interview: “The majority of institutions at the Academy of Sciences should be incorporated into the university system...

“The new Ukrainian government has failed to pay some 100 hryvnias to each of more than 10 million Ukrainian pensioners,” ex- Minister of Labor and Social Policy and deputy head of the SDPU (U) Mykhailo Papiyev told a press conference, referring to numerous complaints received through his party’s...

In between the two “floral” holidays (Valentine’s Day and March 8), The Day asked some women who traditionally receive the most flowers about their most memorable bouquet. Ada ROHOVTSEVA, actress: The bouquet that I will forever remember was presented to me by Viktor Khalatov [a popular Ukrainian...

Graffiti art is a new notion in Ukraine. Still unknown in the provinces, it is not completely understood in the big cities. Graffiti can debase the most imposing building and convey a variety of emotions and information. They can also annoy the hell out of people. Not long ago, a civic group called...

“This minister will be responsible to the people for absolutely everything,” Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko said, introducing Vyacheslav Kyrylenko as the new Minister for Labor and Social Policies. Indeed, he will have to shoulder a heavy burden. The government program has a socially- oriented...