№13, (2005)

Continued from issues Nos. 11, 12 In the fall of 1997 political parties started to announce their election rosters. Formed in January 1995, the Social-Democratic Party of Ukraine (United) announced a...

The Day announces a nationwide mobilization of photographers. Amateurs, professionals, and all lovers of photography, take out your Nikons, Canons, Olympuses, or even Zeniths and Kievs. Clean the...

Ukrainians have become more optimistic. This follows from the findings of an extensive study entitled Social and Economic Security of the Population, conducted in Ukraine by the International Labor...

Sixteen days after John Paul II’s death the Vatican is now proceeding to choose the new head of the Roman Catholic Church. The election’s outcome is not just of interest to Catholic and other...

April 19, 1917. The All-Ukrainian National Congress proclaimed Ukraine’s national and territorial sovereignty and elected a new Central Rada headed by Mykhailo Hrushevsky. 1979. The Council of...

Last week the National Philharmonic of Ukraine hosted a soiree devoted to Ukrainian romantic songs, the brainchild of Oleh Skrypka, frontman of the Vopli Vidopliasova band, as part of the Dream...

Ukraine may receive an invitation to join NATO as early as the end of this month. Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis made this sensational statement in a recent BBC interview. “Only...

During his visit to Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke skeptically of Ukraine’s aspiration to join the European Union. As he put it, “If Ukraine joins the Schengen zone, it will create a...

Totalitarian regimes traditionally give sociology the cold shoulder: can public opinion exist when society marches in tight ranks? In the 1930s many sociologists emigrated from Nazi Germany....

The hero of this article represented a Ukrainian school in Polish literature known as the ZA-GO-GRA three (Bogdan Zaleski, Seweryn Goszczynski, and Michal Grabowski). He highly praised the Ukrainian...

On March 29 the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Ukraine in the case of Ukraine vs. the Ukrainian Press Group, The Day’s publisher, and found Ukraine guilty of suppressing freedom of the...

The following is an interview with Prof. Anatoliy Kolodny, Ph.D. (Philosophy), head of the Religious Studies Department at the Institute of Philosophy of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences....

Myroslava Gongadze, who left Ukraine four years ago and has been living in the United States, flew to Kyiv recently. After a meeting at the Office of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine, Myroslava...

Because of the infamous scandal surrounding the Kyiv Dynamo soccer club, its president Ihor Surkis gets his daily dose of media attention. He is rarely mentioned in a soccer context. All the focus is...

Dmytro Stus’s monograph Vasyl Stus: Zhyttia Iak Tvorchist [Vasyl Stus: Life in Creativity] won the Grand Prix at the 6th Book of the Year nationwide charity drive this past March. Critics are calling...