Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№16, (2003)

20.05.2003 - 00:00

The poet’s famous signet ring was made in the Crimea

My colleague Serhiy Makhun writes in the article “Archoligarch Count Mikhail Vorontsov” (The Day, April 22, 2003, No. 14), “Contemporaries called Vorontsova ‘one of the most attractive women of our...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

“Hungary’s EU accession will create better trade conditions for Ukraine”

Ukrainians tend to look with apprehension on EU enlargement, fearing the possibility of a new iron curtain descending along Europe’s eastern border. Hungary’s accession to the EU in 2004 will most...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

Moscow between Kyiv and Bucharest

The recent visit by Russia’s Foreign Minister Ihor Ivanov to Bucharest resulted in an arrangement for the future visit by Romania’s President Ion Iliescu to Moscow. However, it will not be a pleasure...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

Why I Do Not Want To Be In the Curriculum

For starters, in order to create at least a semblance of a polemic I will stress a single point on which I could argue with Prof. Aheyeva. This is in fact a trifle, perhaps even a personal thing....
20.05.2003 - 00:00

One Day Closer to Eur ope

Ukraine took another step toward Europe last Saturday, adjusting its sizable calendar of holidays to one practiced by EU countries, introducing in it the Day of Europe. Its premiere was unexpected...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

UKRAINE: Victim and Factor of Global Disasters

(Concluded from the previous issue) There is yet another catastrophe, the ecological. There is perhaps no country that has not sustained its own environmental catastrophes, but our Chornobyl is...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

Conspicuous by Their Absence

Every second Sunday of May the all-Ukrainian Memorial Society holds Commemoration Days for Victims of the Totalitarian Regime. It is hardly necessary to explain to any Ukrainians why the Bykivnia...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

Olympics for Ecology Ministers

This event in Ukraine’s ecological life is slated to take place in the next few days. It has been discussed throughout the year. The organizing committee documents read that the Fifth Pan-European...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

Signal for Action

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Yevhen Marchuk believes that in order to enter NATO Ukraine must traverse a “quite complicated path of internal consolidation,” he stated on...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

Monument to the Master

On the eve of the First International Valery Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament, the Kyiv Dynamo Stadium, renamed in his honor last May, witnessed the unveiling of a sculptural composition with the coach...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

Parliament painfully recognizes the Holodomor as genocide

On May 15 Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution, On an Address to the Ukrainian People from the Participants of the Verkhovna Rada Special Meeting to Commemorate Victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor,...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

Archbishop Grigoris BUNIATIAN on the Armenian Community, Kyiv Rus’, and Christian unity

This time The Day’s guest is His Eminence Archbishop Grigoris Buniatian, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Ecumenical Church. Compared to Eastern Orthodox, Greek Catholic adherents, or...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

The Funicular has been one of the sights for almost a century

Every day, passengers of the metropolitan funicular railroad are greeted by the four-legged blondes, Shaiba and Bilka. “They are our pride,” Funicular Manager Stepan Kokhan says affectionately of the...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

What’s good for me is good for you too

The world is coming out of a decade of enormous prosperity and success for business. It was an era that seemed to signal an extraordinary alignment of values between what the private sector wanted...
20.05.2003 - 00:00

Ukrainian Puppeteers Ready to Take on Barbie

Last week Vinnytsia hosted the Third Podillia Puppet International Puppet Theaters Festival. This year’s festival was held under the aegis of Ukraine’s Ministry for Culture and the Arts along with...

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