№6, (2007)
20.02.2007 - 00:00
Iran’s troubled rise
America’s decision to target Iranian agents in Iraq who may be involved in supporting violent militias is but another sign of the massive influence Iran is exercising in that troubled country. But...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
The chiefs’ wigwam
(From my American diary) Now I can look back on the events connected with that trip with a sense of humor. To say that we prepared thoroughly for our first family trip is an understatement. I read...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
For Holy Rus’!
A talk show on the Orthodox problem in Ukraine was recently aired on the First National television channel. No particular ways of solving the crisis of Orthodoxy were found, as always. On the Portal-...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
This week in history
Feb 20 1919: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR (Radnarkom) adopts a decree on civil marriage and the introduction of civil registries. 1944: The fourth antifascist meeting in...
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President Yushchenko awards Order of Courage to 13-year-old
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko has awarded the Order of Courage, 3rd degree, to eighth-grader Vadym Nesteruk from the village of Holovenka in Zhytomyr oblast. The head of state signed a...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
James Mace and his mission
It is awful when you have to say about a close friend whose loss has left lifelong pain, “It is a good thing that he left this world without seeing this.” That is what I told myself on Nov. 28, 2006...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
Return to the homeland
The landscape paintings, portraits, and graphics by a group of artists known as “the Ukrainian Parisians” — Oleksa Hryshchenko, Borys Pastukhov, Vasyl Khmeliuk, and Mykola Vaker — have brought...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
Karel STINDL: “A referendum is the wrong way to solve national security problems”
Since the end of January 2007 the Czech Republic and Poland have been in the media spotlight, especially in Russia. At the same time, both countries have fielded the Kremlin’s criticism for starting...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
The Carpathians: the artist Vadym Odainyk’s second love
Art lovers and specialists have always been interested in the personality of Vadym Odainyk, who left behind timeless works of world caliber. The artist was born in Odesa in the summer of 1925, and...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
Will women take power?
The question of women’s participation in politics and their representation in Ukraine’s governing bodies risks turning into an eternal issue or, at the very least, an enduring one. Who will bother to...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
The future according to James Mace
On Feb. 18 Professor James Mace, the noted US researcher of the 1932-33 Holodomor in Ukraine, would have turned 55. He defended his doctoral dissertation “Communism and the Dilemmas of National...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
Serving the law
Any society sooner or later grapples with the problem of judicial power, an indicator, among other things, of the development of a state ruled by law. At different times this power could belong to a...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
Thank you, great humanist — and forgive us
With James Mace’s birthday approaching, we remember him and try to understand the phenomenon of his personality.
Tens and hundreds of our compatriots are known to have proved their creative...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
A talented look at Ukraine
A group of The Day’s journalists visited Kharkiv on Feb. 16. Frankly we had long waited for this trip and, naturally, prepared for it as best we could. A readers’ conference dedicated to The Day’s...
20.02.2007 - 00:00
Market “square”
Today local taxes and feees are like rockets ready for launching. Soon they may spread to everything except smoke and breathing. Recently, on the invitation of the Parliamentary Committee on Finances...














