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

№19, (2003)

10.06.2003 - 00:00

Recognizing the Obvious

The Day met the announcement on awarding our colleague Klara Pylypivna Gudzyk the title of Meritorious Journalist of Ukraine with sincere joy. It is, of course, not just the high award that matters...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Cossack Mamai on a Shawl

A new exhibition opened at the Obolon Children’s Arts Academy bears a romantic title, Bells of the Apple Trees, a one-woman show by artist Liudmyla Vnuchkova presenting her designs of gowns, scarves...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Making One’s Own Luck

The five enthusiastic ladies, who founded the Women’s Future Center in Lviv, have always been aware that time and chance will only very rarely help one who does nothing for him/herself. You must...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Without receiving anything promised them by authorities, people return to their contaminated native land

After the Chornobyl disaster, residents of Obikhody, a village in Zhytomyr oblast, were evacuated and settled in Nemyriv district, Vinnytsia oblast. They named their settlement in Podillia Novi...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Informally About Major Things

Informal meetings of Ukraine’s head of state with the President of the European Commission seem to have become a tradition. Last May Leonid Kuchma already had an unofficial meeting with Romano Prodi...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Yes to Four Partners, No to Single Currency

National Bank of Ukraine Governor Serhiy Tihipko considers it necessary to speed up the formation of a single economic space of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, but he is convinced it is too...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Children Write to God

This is the name of a project recently started at www.maidan.org.ua. Its authors confess that the idea came to them after reading similar book by Stewart Hampley, a collection of funny excerpts from...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

The Holodomor manmade famine is not recognized genocide in its own state

This year marks the seventieth anniversary of one of the most death-filled pages in Ukraine’s history, the terrible Holodomor manmade famine of 1932-1933. This does not mean that before or after it...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Contest for Vacations

A contest of youth programs has ended in Rivne conducted by the city fathers to select projects designed to organize civilized recreation for the city’s young people. Unfortunately, due to the lack...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Parliament approves NSDC resolution

Verkhovna Rada approved the dispatch of a Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent as part of the international stabilization forces in Iraq. The vote was 273 ayes and 103 nays, with 417 lawmakers...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Inflation in 2003: Cancer or Growth Serum?

Is it bad or, conversely, good that, embarking on the process of forming the budget for 2004, the government is following a conservative scenario as a basis for planning budget items for 2004? This...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

In Search of a Fatherland

Where is Ukrainian journalism going? On the face of it, the answer to this question appears quite simple. It should move toward self-identification. However, so far it seems to be in some kind of...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Exchange of Letters on the Freedom of Expression

Members of Ukraine’s Association of Workers in the Mass Media have addressed an open letter to Dennis MacShane, Great Britain’s Minister for Europe, stating their concern about “blackmail and threats...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Suffering Because of Openness?

“Ukraine is a state of unprecedented openness,” Chairman of Ukraine’s State Television and Radio Committee (STRC) Ivan Chyzh said at a press conference in Dnipropetrovsk, describing the present...
10.06.2003 - 00:00

Petrine Petersburg and the Ukrainians

Every city, like every man, has a destiny of its own. “Europe’s most European capital,” as Saint Petersburg was called by Denis Diderot when he visited Catherine II in 1773, emerged “almost like a...

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