№10, (2005)

“ The presence of the Russian Federation’s Black Sea Fleet on the territory of Ukraine jeopardizes our national interests,” Chairman of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), Oleksandr Turchynov, said...

The UN Commission on the Status of Women recently ended its 49th two-week session, which was attended by 6,000 delegates from 165 countries, including 80 government ministers. The goal of the session...

Revolutions are made by sincere people. Perhaps unlike their masterminds, those who carry out revolutions are ordinary and believing people. Today we look back on the Orange Revolution as something...

Last Friday the Verkhovna Rada passed a virtually new 2005 budget in the first reading by a majority of 376 votes. This impressive result proves that there is no influential parliamentary opposition...

The election results in Moldova did not create a sensation. As expected, Moldova’s pro-European Communists garnered the largest percentage of votes. The elections in this country were not decisive in...

The Day has regularly broached the question of whether the Desiatynna Tserkva should be restored. In issue No. 6 (February 22, 2005) the entire project was called into question. Today we offer Mr....

On April 3 the Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv will host a fairy-tale show called “The Spectacle of Fire” by a Toulouse-based French rock group, which opens this year’s “French Spring 2005”...

Last week seemed to confirm that the Orange Revolution has borne its first fruits, as far as European integration is concerned. First the British daily The Guardian and then official Kyiv published...

Ukraine’s progress toward NATO membership has slowed down over the last couple of years, and there is a fair chance that work in this direction may be interrupted this year, most likely in...

The recent statement by President Viktor Yushchenko about the need to create a National Hermitage at Kyiv’s Arsenal was met with a mixed response. The president’s statement came as a surprise to many...

The dramatic poems of Lesia Ukrayinka (Larysa Kosach) are some of our culture’s precious treasures. A truly national artist (attested by the pen name she deliberately chose at age 13 as a challenge...

On March 26, the Ukrainian folk culture center at Kyiv’s Ivan Honchar Museum hosted “Pisni Vechornytsi,” an improvised version of the Ukrainian traditional folk event that literally means “Lenten...

The sale of tickets for Eurovision 2005 concerts officially began on March 21, but tickets will not be available at Kyiv box offices for another week. Those who don’t want to wait that long can buy...

Before the third round of the presidential election in Ukraine, when the winner’s name had yet to be formally announced-and when few if any doubted the winner’s name-the noted Ukrainian...

Several years ago, the American translator and critic Michael Naydan published an intriguing article entitled “Inshi poety v tvorchosti Liny Kostenko” [Other Poets in the Works of Lina Kostenko] in...