№11, (2007)
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Five soirees with Lysenko Music School students
The Mykola Lysenko Secondary Special Music School of Kyiv recently presented “Five Soirees of Performance Art.” The concert programs, dedicated to the 165th birthday of the outstanding Ukrainian...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Artificial technology
What did organizers of the National Unity Forum, on the one hand, and the Down with zRada! campaign, on the other, try to achieve and what did they in fact achieve by bringing thousands of people...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Kyiv Pectorals handed out
On the eve of World Theater Day, Kyiv’s master thespians were awarded top prizes. The winners of Kyiv Pectoral-2006 were honored at the Ivan Franko Theater, but the occasion did not look very festive...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Shots of life on “cardboard”
A roundtable discussion on the problem of homeless children recently took place in Kyiv’s Ukraine House. Organized by the Oleksandr Feldman International Charitable Foundation, the roundtable “Does...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
UKRAINE-EUROPE: furiously treading water
Ukraine’s relations and prospects of joining the EU and NATO were the subject of recent brainstorming sessions at several international conferences and roundtable discussions: the international forum...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Inspector
The Ministry of Fuel and Energy is completing an inspection of the agreements and protocols signed with Russia on natural gas deliveries. The aim is to provide Ukraine with the most advantageous...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
James SHERR: “The new coalition is the latest manifestation of the country’s disunity ”
James Sherr, Senior Associate of the Conflict Studies Research Centre at the Defense Academy of the United Kingdom, is well known to Ukrainian political and expert circles. It is worth considering...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Lessons of “concentrated” journalism: theory and practice
Last week saw the inauguration of the School of Journalistic Excellence. In a recent issue The Day reported on Larysa Ivshyna’s meeting with the first students of this school whose goal is to train...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Wonders are just beginning
Recently the Internet site Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth, www2.pravda.com.ua) published the writer Oksana Zabuzhko’s cry of the heart, an article in which she deplores the fact that Ukraine is...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Yatseniuk’s signals
Ukraine and Russia seem to be intent on ushering in a new era of mutually pragmatic relations on April 3. On that day, Presidents Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin of Russia will set...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Tourist season launched in Kamianets-Podilsky
The city of Kamianets-Podilsky is an ancient Podillian city of stone on the high banks of the Smotrych River. It is famous throughout Ukraine for its beautiful natural surroundings and the talented...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Growing pains
For Part One, see The Day, no. 45. I wish somebody had contrived to write a similar work in the Trypillian language, the vestiges of which no one has ever seen or managed to reconstruct. (Scholars...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
National Museum of Lviv gets its own chronicle
From the very inception of the National Museum of Lviv, arguably one of the most important projects carried out by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, the hierarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Michael EMMERSON: “Ukraine is the only most important partner in the European Neighborhood Policy”
Michael Emmerson is one of the European Commission’s leading experts. As a senior research fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies, Emmerson has a good knowledge of Brussels’s political...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
“Paradoxical region”
“Ukrainians are Europeans!” These words of Poland’s ex-president Alexander Kwasniewski, who is one of the EU’s leading politicians, was a constant refrain in his discussion with students and...