№55, (2012)
25.09.2012 - 00:00
<i>The Day</i> in eastern Ukraine: first impressions
The Day has already reported that its first editions were published in Donetsk. The newspaper appeared for sale in this region in September 14 of this year and immediately evoked many different...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
What is our life? Playing music!
This year the maestro leads two remarkable orchestras – the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic Society. As an energetic and creative man, Kofman promises...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Performance of Fern Flower is a great present for me
Yevhen Stankovych is a hero of Ukraine, academician, head of the Composition Department at the National Music Academy of Ukraine. He enriched our culture with true masterpieces in many musical...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Non-sloppy story about slops towards the communism
The climax of the visit was at Bykivnia forest near Kyiv. The Polish and Ukrainian presidents opened there a Polish cemetery of the Katyn tragedy victims. It is the fourth cemetery to the victims...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1924: In Lviv member of the Ukrainian Military Organization Stepan Fedak makes an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Polish Marshal Jozef Pilsudski. 1945: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Saakashvili’s “systemic defeat”
Whatever people say about Georgia, this country is becoming increasingly more like a regular democratic state. It sounds ironic, but another example of the positive changes is a scandal caused by...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
A country of grain and water but not of GMO?
Ukraine has an opportunity to become one of the world economy leaders in the next 10 years, Petro Poroshenko, Minister for Economic Development and Trade, announced at the 9th annual Yalta Summit (...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Simplified access to land for foreigners
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading a bill that would extend the range of individuals who can purchase non-agricultural land. Now, companies that have foreign investments as a...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Committee’s signal
The talks about sanctions against the Ukrainian officials involved in Tymoshenko’s imprisonment might have real consequences. The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has unanimously...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Under public pressure
The monument stood on Monastyrsky Island by the Dnipro for half a century before being dismantled and sent for major repairs in 2011. The repairs have dragged on far too long, prompting the public...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Why did a Kyiv court rule in favor of Russia?
A Ukrainian court handed down quite a sensational ruling the other day. It ordered Ukraine to pay Russia 3.113 billion hryvnias to discharge a debt of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU),...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Why is ecology more important than economy?
The Verkhovna Rada has returned the 2013 draft national budget for revision. According to some MPs, the government must revise some indices, in particular, “those concerning the revenues....
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Russia’s opposition gripped by crisis
As predicted by analysts, Moscow’s “March of Millions” gathered a dramatically smaller number of protesters. Before the event, Russia’s noted author Boris Akunin wrote:...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
A stack of old magazines will save nature and children
The idea of the Save a Child by Saving a Tree campaign is very simple. To participate, one just needs, instead of throwing wastepaper away, to donate it to the volunteers working for the Shining...
25.09.2012 - 00:00
Ambitions of Future Europe
To all appearances the EU officials have understood that only a new form of governing the unique EU community will make it possible to ride out the lingering crisis. Proof of this is a number of...













