№10, (2009)
31.03.2009 - 00:00
This week in history
1970: Ukraine’s largest tube-rolling mill goes into operation at the Nykopil Southern Steel Works. 1993: Kharkiv hosts Ukraine’s First International Drama Festival, Berezil-93. April 1 1922: Artem...
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Students learning to do global politics
For the first time a lady was elected Secretary General of the United Nations. Her name is Maryna Vitovta, a senior student at Kyiv Business Lyceum. She received this responsible post at the...
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How are Ukrainians to build their future?
After the recent statements made by the leading French and German politicians and echoed by US experts, even the most optimistic Ukrainian politicians, who had until then been “absolutely sure” that...
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Deciphering history
Students of the Taras Shevchenko Pedagogical University and Larysa Ivshyna, editor in chief of Den’/The Day, have discussed actualized history and a generation that is, after all, not lost.The Day’s...
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Transatlantic Drift
BERLIN – On the banks of the Rhine and in Prague, NATO and the European Union will pay homage to the new American president in early April. There will be pretty pictures and lofty speeches on the...
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Unprotected element
Investigating the attitude of ancient Ukrainians towards nature, experts conclude that our ancestors were very ecologically-minded. This means that they lived in harmony with nature and used its...
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The great effort of Yevhenia Leshchuk’s soul
LVIV—The year of Ivan Bohun’s birth still remains a mystery. It is only known that he was Colonel of Podillia, then of Kalnyk (Vinnytsia) and Pavoloch, and the Acting Hetman of Ukraine. He also...
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What kind of Russia do we love?
The Day has raised this question for a reason. After regaining independence and in the years when Ukraine-Russia relations were not so simple, we have been trying to understand Russia in a new way...
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Ukraine’s GTS to be modernized
Ukraine and the European Union have initialed a joint declaration on international investments in the upgrading of Ukraine’s gas transportation system. The Ukrainian side believes this instrument...
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Do we have knights in shining armor today?
Girls are supposed to have cherished dreams about knights in shining armor. Where can they find ones today? At Ostroh Academy National University, it appears. This town, which is glorified in...
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Stop the crisis, start the spin!
Viktor Yanukovych kept his promise: as soon as the 100 days he had given to Yulia Tymoshenko for riding out the crisis were over, he took people out on the streets in a protest action. Luckily...
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Antidepressant for banks
This country’s financial sector has been at fever pitch in the past six months. The National Bank has only managed to slow down the mass-scale outflow of individual and corporate deposits by using “...
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Shevchenko and music
We speak very much of the Bard as a poet and much less as of a prose writer and artist. Taras Shevchenko is for us a fighter for Ukraine’s freedom, a symbol of the nation’s spiritual life and...
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Ihor MALASHENKO: “Ukraine gives me an opportunity to do full-fledged work here. ”
One of the early founders of Russia’s independent television, Ihor Malashenko had to leave for the United States after the NTV channel was checkmated in 2001. Since then he has had to follow the...
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Japan and Ukraine: new cultural models
March 28, 2009, was the last day of the three-day visit of Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to Japan. Although its main purpose was to attract investments of the “Asian tigers” to...