Vitalii Kniazhansky

The modern structure called the New Safe Confinement (NSC) is now in place of the old crumbling Soviet era “Sarcophagus” that poorly served to contain radiation on the Chornobyl disaster site and save Ukraine and the rest of the world. Thirty years after the 1986 nuclear catastrophe the...

During the recent grueling prime-ministerial race, the newspaper Den suggested an alternative Cabinet composition. In particular, our contributors and experts proposed that the office of prime minister be taken by Volodymyr Lanovy, a person who had shown a certain vision and attitude as Minister of...

Friendly murmur of a dosimeter in the hand of our guide turns to threatening crackling as soon as the device nears the green moss islet, entrenched on the pavement of that deserted city. The guide tells The Day’s team: “Radiation is stronger where dust accumulates.” With some fear...

On April 18, we learned that Ukraine had a new chance to get back on track its four-year program with the IMF. When meeting with the Ukrainian delegation during the spring meeting of the Fund and the World Bank’s leadership in Washington, the IMF’s head Christine Lagarde said that the...

Early on February 2, one of the so-called technocrats in the Yatseniuk government, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Aivaras Abromavicius told reporters that he had tendered his resignation. “The reason is a sharp increase in actions aimed at blocking any systemic and important...

The year 2016 started with a rapidly falling oil price. Back in late December, the forecast was at 40 to 50 dollars a barrel. Now, experts predict it going down to 30, 20 or even 10 dollars. Most pessimistic are analysts working for the British bank Standard Chartered, who forecast oil at 10 US...

For how longer will stay the myth that agriculture is the principal and the most promising industry in Ukraine? This question of The Day is answered by Borys Paskhaver, chief researcher of the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of NASU, Academician of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences...

In reality, the groundwork for a successful decentralization of municipal government is laid not in the capital but in the cities and communes that are to be vested, under the new law, with new duties and expanded powers. But are the heads of our cities and communes prepared to work in the new...

It is almost two weeks since the snap parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine, but no coalition has so far been formed, even though there is a difficult economic and military situation in the state. The count of votes, the announcement of voting results, and the formation of the Cabinet is...

For the first time in the history of Ukraine, the National Bank (NBU) head has in fact begun a media briefing with a complaint. At about 5 a.m., October 6, 15 men attacked the house of this country’s chief banker Valeria Hontareva, pelting it with eggs and paint-filled packets. “This...