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The right to have a family

Children must be raised by families. Although this inalienable children’s right is self-evident, young mothers are abandoning their babies in increasing numbers, especially physically handicapped babies. Other category of children, born to HIV-positive mothers, is doomed to life in an orphanage almost as soon as they are conceived. According to

Crimea not a resort yet

On Sept. 7, Hennadii Moskal, the Ukrainian president’s permanent representative to the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea, summarized the 2006 resort season’s preliminary statistics for the Crimea. His press consultant Liudmyla Mokhova told The Day that the meeting established that the resort season’s financial results with regard to resort

Monuments to unknown warriors

While their descendants are erecting obelisks to the insurgents, if only to console themselves temporarily with the feeling of being “patriots of Ukraine,” the remaining participants and eyewitnesses of those events are quietly passing away without sharing their memories.

The globalized village of Pluzhne: supplying Europe with manpower

Someone had left a copy of the Italian Ukrainian Gazette on a table in the tavern. It turns out that this newspaper has been in circulation since February 2006. Although it was early in the morning, the tavern was crowded. The assortment of ordered drinks was a reminder that Pluzhne has long been living under the sun of the free market. Tipsy

Creator of the nation

In his philosophical and sociopolitical works Ivan Franko raised questions that were topical not only and not so much for that period as for subsequent generations of Ukrainians in whose success and happy destiny he wholeheartedly believed. Franko’s grandeur as a thinker and sociopolitical activist lay in his ability to single out from among the

A good monarch

“May I be loved by you, oh, Lord, as I love these friendly and kind people,” declared Elizabeth Petrovna during her visit in 1744 to Kyiv, where she was welcomed by a number of Cossack officers and townspeople, who greeted her with great respect. The empress’s statement is a clear expression of her loyal, and often friendly attitude to the

“Guelder Rose Summer on the Dnipro”

“Guelder Rose Summer on the Dnipro” has become the calling card of the city of Komsomolske in Poltava oblast, pulling in thousands of visitors from 40 countries in the past seven years. The idea of holding this festival belongs to Leonid Kotovsky, ex-director of the municipal Palace of Culture and Art, who has been the festival organizer for four