№13, (2008)

Eight years ago a considerable proportion of the world’s population celebrated the 2,000th anniversary of Christ’s birth. During these last two millennia Christianity has changed in many respects,...

In the next two years Ukraine is going to preside over the Black Sea University Network (BSUN), an organization that is mapping a strategy of sustained development for the countries of the Black Sea...

“Help save our library! It is going to be thrown out on the street with all its books!” This was the gist of the appeal that was sent to The Day by Mykhailo VORONTSOV, an instructor at a Kyiv...

The outstanding Ukrainian writer Oles Honchar would have been 90 last Thursday. He began his writing career as the author of novellas and short stories that appeared in 1938. By 1947 he had published...

The city of Yuzhnoukrainsk (Mykolaiv oblast) recently hosted the International Children’s Drawing Contest dubbed “The Peaceful Atom is the Future of the World.” This is the third such competition in...

April 8 1990: The International Renaissance Foundation is established in Ukraine. 1994: The National Bank of Ukraine holds the country’s first auction to sell Russian rubles on the basis of the...

While the participants of the NATO summit in Bucharest were casting about for words to explain why their decision to postpone the resolution on Ukraine and Georgia’s admission to the NATO Membership...

There is nothing new about our government lacking funds to maintain our museums. The latter, however, do not forgive us for this indifferent attitude, and we are losing national relics. The passage...

The 35th Humoryna 2008, an annual festival of humor that is held every year on April 1 in Odesa, went off with flying colors. There were actors on stilts, children’s and adults’ orchestras,...

The NATO summit in Bucharest has justified its reputation as the “summit of hopes.” Croatia and Albania saw their dreams come true when they were invited to join the North Atlantic Treaty...

Yesterday was one of those days that can go down in history and influence the destiny of future generations. Do the people who just yesterday were demonstrating thoughtlessly in the squares of...

The Swiss Embassy in Ukraine and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) recently unveiled the “Strategy for Cooperation with Ukraine for 2008-2010: Moving Closer to European Standards...

(Continued from The Day, no. 12) FAMILY ENCOUNTERS AND PARTINGS After a short while Skoropadsky’s wife and daughter boarded a train at the Kyiv train station and left for St. Petersburg. Their...

Some political forces in Ukraine say that the US is not fulfilling its obligations vis-a-vis Ukraine and that Washington is controlling Kyiv. Do such statements correspond to reality? Did the first...

On the weekend of March 29-30 the residents of Nova Kakhivka witnessed a real knights’ tournament, part of the Nova Kakhivka Cup. One of the special features of this year’s tournament is that...