№10, (2008)

On March 12 the Hungarian Embassy in Kyiv hosted the launch of the Ukrainian-Hungarian co-publication of the geographic atlas Ukraine on Maps. The ceremony was attended by scholars from both...

Writing about Shevchenko is a privilege that must be deserved, sometimes with one’s whole life. The words of our greatest poet, thinker, and creator of the spiritual cosmos of Ukrainians formed our...

The jeweler Volodymyr Balyberdin and his wife Halyna Diuhovska, an artist who specializes in textiles, have dedicated over 20 years to their respective arts. During this time they have put together a...

With every passing day, water is becoming the cause of increasingly more conflicts among people, entire regions, and states. Aware that pure water and clean air and soil are more precious than oil...

There is a strong possibility that President George Bush will visit Ukraine, most likely before the NATO summit in Bucharest scheduled for April 2-4. The US president said he wanted to visit...

The Ukrainian State Research Centre for Certification, Metrology, Standardization, and Consumer Right Protection (Ukrmetrteststandart) recently organized an unusual exhibit featuring shoddy and...

Since the 1960s by far the strongest musical trend in the world has been a new look at traditional musical instruments. Stringed, percussion, and wind instruments blend in with everything — from rock...

If you compare Kyiv to a sick body, our capital city is in a state of crisis, with equal chances for the illness to progress and for recovery. There may be different attitudes to the crisis, but I am...

March 18 1848: The Hungarian parliament passes a bill annulling serfdom in Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia). 1913: A military organization known as the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen is created in Lviv, the...

The following interview is part of our newspaper’s plan to acquaint readers with the views of two ministers of the economy — one from the real cabinet and the other from the “shadow cabinet,” which...

Some talented individuals who left an indelible mark on Ukrainian literature, culture, and spiritual life came to occupy their place in extraordinary, if not impenetrable, ways. Since we recently...

Jerzy Szmajdzinski, the deputy speaker of the Polish parliament, leader of the Left Democratic Union fraction and the same-named party, and former defense minister, does not conceal the fact that the...

Will Berlin after all oppose Washington’s attempts to give the MAP to Ukraine? These and other questions are raised in The Day ’s blitz interview with former ambassador of Germany to Ukraine and...

Ten years ago the newspaper Literaturna Ukraina published an article entitled “A Half-solved Mystery: Theory” (27 Sept. 1997), which was written by Hlafira Palamarchuk, an art historian and member of...

The first serious attempt to familiarize Ukrainian television viewers with NATO has been made by the creators of a documentary television series called Traveling through Europe in Search of the Enemy...