№12, (2009)

1. KEY PHRASE FROM THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTOThe Orange Revolution gave an impetus to a generation change in government agencies, while 60-year-old politicians are being elbowed out by 40-year-olds....

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, as they say. The story of Svitlana Tomilina and Viktor Vasnetsov deserves to be described in a novel. In June 1941 Svitlana, a student of a Kyiv school and...

April 14 1940: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree instituting civilian registrar’s offices in Ukraine’s western oblasts. April 15 1919: The Central Executive...

The legislative assembly of Canada’s province Ontario has passed a law by a unanimous vote for the first time in its history. According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vasyl Kyrylych,...

Japan is the example of a country that has modernized itself still preserving its national identity. Now the Land of the Rising Sun is in a not-so-good economic situation caused by the crisis that...

Hanne Severinsen, formerly the PACE rapporteur on Ukraine, has been an adviser to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for nearly a year. Previously, this Danish politician spent almost 11 yeas monitoring...

In the past years different natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and violent storms have occurred worldwide with increasing frequency. Not so long ago the whole world was...

If protest actions against the government lead to its downfall, it is a revolution, but if they fail, it is a rebellion. This is what the anticommunist revolution in Moldova ended up in. Now the...

CHERNIVTSI — I don’t know whether our project has become anything extraordinary, but for us, the students at the departments of history, political science, and international relationships of the...

The Day recently launched a high-profile series of publication, “What Kind of Russia Do We Love?” Within this series, The Day’s contributors, experts and readers speak on the people, culture, and...

Three schools in Kyiv are soon to be named after such famous people as the Italian poet and public figure Dante Alighieri, the Ukrainian writer and civil rights champion Valerii Marchenko, and, much...

Information about an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people in 1932–33 keeps spreading and finds response across the world, as an increasing number of countries condemn the Holodomor. Naturally...

The White Hall of the National Museum of Russian Art welcomed Ukrainian painters, representatives of local authorities, and sponsors from various regions of Ukraine at the launch of the album-cum-...

The official presidential campaign launch date is June 27, although it de facto started two weeks ago, if not earlier. Although the key candidates are still arguing about the date, the Central...

Why are some people intellectually superior to others? This question appears especially topical for parents who see in their children the marks of a genius as soon as they are born and picture their...