№12, (2011)
24.02.2011 - 00:00
This day in history
1919: Ukraine and Poland call a truce. 1930: The CC of the CP(b)U forward the circular “On the Course of Collectivization and Kolkhoz Construction in Ukraine,” ordering to complete collectivization...
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Approaching the point of no return
Kyiv-Moscow-Kyiv – A rather tough Russia-EU meeting will take place on February 24. The permanent representative of the Russian Federation at the EU Vladimir Chizhov even fears that “...
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“I see myself skiing, driving, even operating on people”
“One day my life changed dramatically,” says the head of the Ukrainian Society of the Blind in Lviv Oblast Oksana Potymko. At the age of 24, she worked as a nurse and wanted above all to become a...
24.02.2011 - 00:00
Vasyl Barka: Life and work
I am happy to have written works I had dreamed about, and I know that they will be of considerable help in the spiritual life of my people, especially in the future.
Vasyl Barka
Vasyl...
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Internet helps to find Lesia Ukrainka’s relatives
Anniversary celebrations are to be held in the village of Kolodiazhne, Volyn oblast, where the great poet (born Larysa Kosach-Kvitka) spent a significant part of her youth; at the Lesia Ukrainka...
24.02.2011 - 00:00
“We continue to work. But with no Internet access”
Both The Day and ordinary Ukrainian citizens continue to watch closely the developments involving the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow. As it is known, in December, 2010, the only Ukrai-nian...
24.02.2011 - 00:00
The result counts
The first to win were the parents of the pupils of school №No. 111, located in one of the remote suburbs of Donetsk. They picketed the premises of the Petrovska district council which, according to...
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Poetry of the earth
Lviv – Sixty paintings by Petro Sypniak were presented at the Lviv gallery Korali (5 Mentsynsky Str.). According to art critic Roman Yatsiv, the artist is “a major figure of the middle...
24.02.2011 - 00:00
28th Ukrainian Fashion Week sets new trend: patriotic fashion
Ukrainian designers and the Ukrainian Fashion Week (UFW) continue to multiply not just the country’s fashion capital, but also its cultural one. As it was aptly underlined by the general...
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Water network systems and national interests
Zhytomyr – In any country the water and sewage network system is considered to be a strategic facility. Yet if in European cities and towns even a short-time water supply failure ranks as an...
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From memorandum to result
Last week saw an important event for the country’s energy sector. During the third meeting of the US-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission, Naftohaz Ukrainy NJSC and ExxonMobil (US) signed...
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EVENT
President supports Constitutional Assembly
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a decree on supporting former President Leonid Kravchuk’s initiative on creating a...
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Siaivo is closed, now it’s dark in the capital
Almost fifty people, concerned about the destiny of the bookshop, gathered in Kyiv in front of Siaivo’s closed doors. The activist decided to call their action Siaivo bookshop is the last barricade...
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Andrii SADOVY: I am ready to help
Lviv – One of a newspaper’s roles is organizing things. The Day agrees with this statement. In an interview with Anna Lysyk, a renowned Lviv ceramicist of great talent (No. 2, January...
24.02.2011 - 00:00
The history of one painting
The painter and art teacher Fedir Krychevsky belonged to a generation of artists who not only created new art on the wave of European modernism, but also helped build a new country, independent...