№11, (2009)

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...

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...

What do I have to write about him? In the tidal wave of texts (written, filmed, pictured, or painted) that is coming at us through every informational channel, it is difficult to pick a topic not...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

On Ivan Mazepa’s birthday, March 20, 2009, I happened to be in the Museum of Hetmanship at the launch of the book Shliakh do Poltavy (The Way to Poltava) by the contemporary Ukrainian historian Taras...

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...

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...

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...

As The Day wrote in the previous issue, the trip to Chernihiv on March 20 was packed with events. After meeting students from three local colleges in the Taras Shevchenko Pedagogical University,...

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...

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...

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...