№11, (2009)
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Poltava opens alley lined up with Gogol’s characters
The characters from Nikolai Gogol’s (Mykola Hohol’s) works have been placed in Poltava’s Gogol Public Garden: Solokha, the Nose, Taras Bulba, the Young Lady, and Vakula. Alongside them are four bags...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Is all of this really so?
A bicameral parliament is an object of bitter criticism on the part of MPs, political scientists, and journalists: they are saying it is a legislative brainchild of Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
This week in history
1990: Lviv hosts a constituent assembly to establish the association State Independence of Ukraine. 1993: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the All-Ukrainian Association of Regional Historians...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Looking for a children’s book
Last Thursday, on the birthday of the great fairy-tale author Hans Christian Andersen, we marked International Children’s Book Day. Shortly before this date, Ukrainian children’s libraries held the...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Tadashi Idzava: I can see great potential in Ukraine
The following is an interview with Mr. Tadashi Idzava, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine as of October 2008. As usual, The Day posed two questions: (a) What kind of...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Fair sum of $20,000 for every have-not
Toward the end of 2006, the OUN-WIDER published statistics according to which more than half residents of this planet were living in misery; their incomes did not exceed $2,200 and they shared one...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Reaffirming Europe
ROME/STOCKHOLM — The ongoing global economic crisis is shaking beliefs and approaches that have long been enshrined in European policies. Indeed, the crisis is calling into question the very...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Mother’s plakhta and daughter’s last photo
Lutsk — Tamara Skrypka, a graduate of the Lutsk-based Lesia Ukrainka Teacher-Training Institute and now a research associate at the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in New York, has brought some...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
European and Ukrainian teenagers on the school of the future
The “Challenges for Schools” project of the British Council has been completed in Ukraine. Thirteen countries, including ours, participated. For a year the adolescents contemplated on what the school...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Who is Nikolai Gogol to you?
Bohdan STUPKA, actor, artistic director of Ivan Franko Ukrainian Drama Theater, who plays the title role in the motion picture Taras Bulba:“One ought to read Nikolai Gogol until it is too late,...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
The glow of someone else’s glory
Conclusion. For beginning see The Day No. 10
An open face-off between national-minded Ukrainian intellectuals and adherents of a “united and undivided Russia” began after the first Russian...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
April Fool’s Contest in Odesa: dedicated to Gogol, crisis, and struggle against organized crime
ODESA — the 36th April Fool’s contest known here as Humoryna started on Prymorsky Blvd., with a display of cartoons entitled “Friendship Starts with a Smile.” It was followed by a karaoke competition...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Imperial gas ambitions
These days we are mostly debating the ways to modernize Ukraine’s gas transportation system (GTS) and the need for Russia’s participation in this process. The opinions are polarized, as is often the...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
Birds returning to Ukraine. What is awaiting them?
The news about migrant birds poisoned in Kharkiv oblast has quickly spread over Ukraine, but it did not cause any broad response. Have we suddenly become indifferent and heartless en masse? It...
07.04.2009 - 00:00
What kind of Russia do I love?
What we need is a scholarly substantiated and ethically valid reconstruction of dramatic events, conflicts, and losses sustained by Ukrainians and Russians.Is this really possible in today’s Russia...