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

№36, (2007)

27.11.2007 - 00:00

The challenge from Saakashvili’s brother-in-arms

TBILISI — The fact that Levan Gachechiladze was nominated as a presidential candidate in Georgia came as a surprise to many people. Experts had predicted a more experienced politician for this post....
27.11.2007 - 00:00

Fans promise a “soccer Maidan” to protect Olympic Stadium

There are problems galore as Ukraine approaches the final stretch of preparing for the Euro-12 soccer championship. According to sports organizations, the Western press is reporting now and again...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

Valery Akopov’s old Kyiv

For many years Valery Akopov, an artist who recorded the image of vanishing Kyiv, was branded as a “slanderer of Soviet reality.” Thirty five years ago Akopov, shocked by the fact that his beloved...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

This week in history

Nov. 27 1648: King Jan Casimir II of Poland signs an edict guaranteeing Cossack privileges. 1918: The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences is founded in Kyiv (today: the National Academy of Sciences of...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

Fabio FABBRI: “Ukraine is worth a closer look”

Today’s featured guest of The Day’s column “Our Country through Foreigners’ Eyes” is Fabio Fabbri, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Italy to Ukraine. We asked him the following two...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

School launched with pomp

The smell of freshly-cut boards dominates in the new school building in the village of Zalisoche, Volyn oblast. The principal, Svitlana Zbyrun, jokes that repairs here “have not stopped, they’re on...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

A special aura

The Day has already published articles on the 85th anniversary of the Museum of Russian Art in our capital and the fact that there are only two other museums in the world like the Kyiv one-the...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

Climate change and development: “The central challenge of our time”

Imagine that a huge asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. Scientists tell us that there is a 10 percent chance of a collision in 10 years, and that the consequences of its impact will be catastrophic....
27.11.2007 - 00:00

The Maidan

Three years ago, in the late fall of 2004, an event took place in Kyiv known as the Maidan. No sooner had the Central Electoral Commission headed by Serhii Kivalov announced that Viktor Yanukovych...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

Where will this money go?

Every year there are 1,700 cases of cancer among children in Ukraine. Half of them die. Statistics are faceless, but hidden behind them are children’s lives cut short, parents’ tears, and suffering....
27.11.2007 - 00:00

European Union will help Ukraine to reform health care

Today the death rate of able-bodied people in Ukraine (25- 54 years old) is twice as high as that in other European countries, and some international experts estimate that our life expectancy will...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

“Support does not lie in applause”

Three years ago the stormy presidential election of 2004, also known as the Orange Revolution, stirred up enormous interest in the world. On Nov. 22 this year I was waiting for one of its main...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

Identity and moder nization

Descriptions of Japan should be placed in the context of “Japan and the rest of the world.” After all my travels I have not sensed that I have seen a country that even remotely resembles Ukraine,...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

Maidan 2004: the start of the road

On Nov. 22 Ukraine marked the third anniversary the Orange Revolution. When this article was being sent to bed, some 150 persons had gathered on the Maidan, most of them journalists. There was a...
27.11.2007 - 00:00

The people’s metropolitan

Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky (1864-1937) is one of the most tragic figures in Ukraine’s modern history. This Ukrainian hierarch founded the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and...

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