№11, (2007)
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
On the way to monarchy
Moscow’s former Institute of Marxism and Leninism recently hosted an all-Russian scholarly and practical conference on the “Monarchist Idea in the 21st Century,” devoted to the 90th anniversary of...
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
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
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
Holodomor and Holocaust denial to be a criminal offense
President Viktor Yushchenko has submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada, introducing criminal liability for denying the Holodomor and the Holocaust. Ukraine’s head of state said this is an urgent...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
This week in history
April 3 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR ratified a decree announcing former estates of Baron Freidrich F. Falz-Fein, Ascaniya Nova and Yelyzavetfeld, a national nature...
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
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
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
Dreaming of 2012
On Aug. 19, 2006, President Viktor Yushchenko signed an edict conferring awards on the players and coaches of Ukraine’s national soccer team. The awards ceremony finally took place in Kyiv’s House of...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
Coalition of Unity
Recently The Day’s editorial board received a very interesting letter from Chicago resident Dr. Daria Markus, the editor of the Encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Diaspora. The text of her letter is...
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...
03.04.2007 - 00:00
An evening with Haydn
This year’s 13th arts festival, “March - Shevchenko’s Month,” featured a concert by student soloists and the student orchestra from the Kyiv-based Reinhold Gliere Music School. The concert, held at...
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...