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

№29, (2006)

26.09.2006 - 00:00

Kholm region celebrates Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s 140th birthday

September 21, on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrations of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s 140th birthday will begin in St. John the Baptist’s Church in Kholm with a solemn requiem...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

Was the 1933 Holodomor an act of genocide?

On Nov. 10, 2003, the 58th UN General Assembly Session officially adopted the Joint Statement on the Holodomor-the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Due to the Russian Federation’s inflexible...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

Yulia Tymoshenko’s “silver bullet”

We now know that Yulia Tymoshenko is not superstitious. She regards the fact that the creation of the parliamentary opposition coincided with a solar eclipse as a signal that “the shadow government...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

International Day of Peace without peace

On Sept. 21 the worldwide community celebrated the International Day of Peace. For millions of people in various parts of the world these are sought-after words. The United Nations entered this date...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

Beware! Social advertising!

Several days ago the organizers of the 2nd National Public Advertising Festival, scheduled to open on Nov. 3 at Ukraine House, presented the festival’s new emblem and concept. Even without them, many...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

The army will be protected

Ukraine’s military forces gather the strongest and healthiest people in the nation. But the AIDS epidemic has now reached its ranks: since the disease began spreading in Ukraine, more than 400...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

This week in history

September 26 1995: PACE Session in Strasbourg adopts a resolution on Ukraine’s accession to this organization. 2001: Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma’s visit to Kazakhstan begins; a number of...
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“And the princes began to plot sedition against each other...”

(Conclusion. Continued from The Day, no. 151). Could Rus’ have gone another way under these circumstances? It is possible. To a significant degree this depended on the personality of the Grand Prince...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

Perpetuating butchers?

The First one racked my country dear; The Second gave the final blow That brought my land to utter woe... (From Shevchenko’s “The Dream,” trans. Constantine Andrusyshen and Watson Kirkconnell,...
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Saying goodbye to hopes for a population explosion?

Starting next year, only married couples with an average monthly gross family income below 5,000 hryvnias, assessed over the previous six months, will be eligible for one-time childbirth benefits....
26.09.2006 - 00:00

Bruce JACKSON: “There is nothing bad about a pragmatic approach to integrating into European institutions”

Bruce JACKSON, president of the Project on Transitional Democracies, is a frequent visitor to Ukraine. He has an excellent understanding of both American and Ukrainian foreign policies. Our readers...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

Straighten your back and hold your man tightly

SCHOOL FOR A LADY Lady, a school for girls, established in 2000 and modeled on the pre-Revolutionary College for Noble Maidens, is located in Boiarka, a suburb of Kyiv. The school, both outside and...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

Clio and <I>The Day</I>

No matter what scholars say, I am convinced that the roots of civilization began growing not when the first state was formed, and not when the first war erupted from a dispute about a fruit tree...
26.09.2006 - 00:00

President Yushchenko speaks his mind

On Wednesday evening during the briefing at the Presidential Secretariat that followed a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, President Viktor Yushchenko answered some questions....
26.09.2006 - 00:00

Projection of life

The main event of the year for readers — the Lviv Publishers’ Forum — took place on a day with a fateful number — Sept. 13. That is the exact number of years that publishers, book-selling...

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