№2, (2006)
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An army of observers
“The parliamentary elections that will soon take place in Ukraine present a unique opportunity to show that the country has embarked on a democratic path,” said Liubomyr Kopaj, head of the OSCE...
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“The backbone of a nation is history that is fully absorbed”
“I try to follow articles in The Day’s columns ‘History and I’ and ‘Ucraina Incognita’ because as a professional historian (I have been teaching and researching history in the higher school for 20...
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Democracy for chosen few
The parliamentary campaign of 2006 is certainly of historical importance, namely that its results will either confirm that this society has turned toward modernization after the Orange Revolution, or...
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“I can’t bear other people’s sufferings”
Nadia Surovtseva, a woman of unusual destiny, is known among the Ukrainian elite as a translator and civic figure, who had an excellent command of two European languages, French and German. When the...
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The state is taking itself to court
Last Thursday the Ukrainian government received an unpleasant message from the US. John Herbst, the ambassador of this leading world power, said to a Ukrainian newspaper, “Reprivatization has by and...
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The observation knot
Parliamentary election observers are beginning to arrive in Ukraine. The first to report their arrival was the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). However, not...
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How to define the president’s style ?
The first anniversary of the Ukrainian president’s inauguration served as a pretext to consider the new leader’s style. Our discussion began with an article that was sent to the editors. Later The...
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We and the empire
I am writing a different foreword than the one I initially planned. I must respond to a diplomatic scandal that broke out in the last days of the “gas war.” When First Deputy Foreign Minister...
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“Several meetings with the late...”
A festival commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was held at the National Philharmonic on Jan. 25-27. It began with the literary-...
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Methane proposal
Now that Ukraine appears to have settled its gas dispute with Russia’s Gazprom, it is high time to accelerate the development of Ukraine’s own natural gas resources. One place to start is in the coal...
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Our Thermopylae
Everyone who has studied ancient history remembers the 300 Spartan heroes, who died in 480 BC in Thermopylae Gorge but stopped the advance of the Persian invaders. In critically reconsidering...
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Appealing to common sense
The Ukrainian court system continues to work against itself by constantly issuing rulings that undermine citizens’ trust in courts and judges, since the latter obviously do not follow the law so much...
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On the eve of the French Revolution
Charles de Montesquieu, the French philosopher and man of letters of the Age of Enlightenment, died 250 years ago. All his reflections and books were dedicated to an analysis of existing laws, the...
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This week in history
January 31 1920. The first Ukrainian Communist newspaper in the US Ukrayinski Shchodenni Visti (Ukrainian Daily News) started its publication in New York. 1966. The Council of Ministers of USSR...
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EU expansion may affect Ukraine
For most of the last century, political realities kept Ukraine and Sweden apart. But my visit to Kiev last week served as a reminder of the numerous things that keep us together. Our two countries...











