№1, (2009)

The adjective Rus’ seems unusual. There is Russian, while Rus’ as an adjective looks like a mistake. However, let us not jump to conclusions. I will attempt to argue that Rus’ as an adjective is a...

During the holiday season theater-goers saw several traditional ballets-cum-fairy tales: The Nutcracker, The Night before Christmas, and Buratino and the Magical Violin. The last performance, staged...

The launch of Oxana Pachliowska’s book Ave, Europa! generated a very special atmosphere that seldom observed during cultural events in Kyiv. People packed one of the halls of the Ukrainian...

Money without culture is a lot worse than culture without money. Art patrons have carried out their noble mission throughout history guided by this thought. Fortunately, Ukrainian culture is in the...

A town made of ice has gone up in a public garden behind the building of the oblast state administration. Its main characters are heroes of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen: the Snow Queen,...

The group has marked the theater’s 160th anniversary by touring cities in Ukraine and also performing the play Hutsul Year at the Edinburgh Fringe International Festival. It was also given the status...

For more than two weeks Ukrainians have been waiting for their government to reach an agreement with Russia and put an end to the gas conflict, which is also affecting Europe. Some are trying to...

NEW YORK — In recent years, emerging-market countries, including those in Asia, have made impressive strides in strengthening their fundamentals, accelerating their economic growth and cushioning...

This drawing was created 10 years ago by the genius of the caricaturist Anatolii Kazansky and has been carried by The Day several times. Back in 1998 the artist’s prophetic gift enabled him to...

The Tchaikovsky Ukrainian National Music Academy’s Opera Studio is one of the most interesting cultural centers since most of its performers are the Academy’s undergraduates and post-graduates who...

Jan. 20 1661: The Polish king grants Lviv’s Jesuit Collegium “the status of academy and the title of university.” 1943: The first issue of the newspaper Ukrainske slovo comes off the presses in...

Slovakia is one of the European Union countries that have suffered from the Russian-Ukrainian gas conflict but remained unaffected by the global financial crisis. Who does Bratislava blame for...

Over the past few years the last week of November has heard the mournful echo of an unprecedented 1932-1933 tragedy, the Holodomor, which was a famine artificially engineered in Ukraine by Stalin’s...

Under President Viktor Yushchenko’s edict, 2009 is marked in Ukraine as the Year of Maria Prymachenko. The celebration of her birth centennial started at the end of 2008. Den’ closely followed the...

In the diversified and globalized world of today, establishing long-term contacts is the first step toward success. Seeking compromise and understanding, all countries in the world, including Ukraine...