№14, (2015)
03.03.2015 - 11:09
“Ukraine must be free of Russian domination”
Since early 2015, Senator John McCain has been the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Despite his busy schedule, filled with Senate sessions, the committee hearings, and travel missions...
03.03.2015 - 10:45
“Lead it, don’t oust it”
According to Ilmi Umerov, Mejlis member, former chief of the district administration in Bakhchysarai, Crimea, last week there was a meeting between Russia’s Authorized Representative Oleg...
03.03.2015 - 10:37
Ukrainian song as a moral landmark
On February 20 each Den’s subscriber has got a free music supplement to the Friday number of the newspaper: a new patriotic album UKROP by Haidamaky. This joint initiative of the Charitable...
02.03.2015 - 18:14
The emerging Russia…
Having marched in Moscow to honor slain Boris Nemtsov, people got up early on March 2 and went to work for the good of the state. Amazingly, many of my Ukrainian interlocutors saw the procession,...
02.03.2015 - 18:13
“We are all winners here”
“Wait until they record their take,” a guard told people who gathered at the entrance, waiting to be allowed to take their seats, just as the song was being recorded that would be played...
02.03.2015 - 18:12
How Ukrainian families looked in the 17th century
An exhibition of reconstructed 16th- and 17th-century Ukrainian costumes, entitled At the Ostrozky Princely Court, has opened at the art gallery of the National University of Ostroh Academy. Its...
02.03.2015 - 18:11
“She laid down her life to help Ukrainians know themselves”
On the day of Lesia Ukrainka’s birth anniversary, city government and public representatives laid flowers at the famous fellow countrywoman’s monument on Lutsk’s Teatralny Maidan....
02.03.2015 - 17:48
A diplomatic “pocket”
Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 has been the subject of a heated debate in society, especially after the Debaltseve retreat which incurred heavy losses… Today the public begins to look differently at the...
02.03.2015 - 17:40
Promotion of literature in Ukraine: challenges
“All civilized nations have reading promotion programs, which take into account the country’s inner peculiarities and specific problems. If in the US the problem is related to education,...
02.03.2015 - 17:39
Four anniversaries to be celebrated during the Shevchenko March Festival of 2015
Unusually, this year’s festival will feature the celebrations of the 140th birth anniversary of prominent musical figure, composer, teacher, conductor, and director of the Kyiv Conservatory in...
02.03.2015 - 17:38
Latvian poetry by candlelight
Writer’s House in Kyiv held a poetry evening dedicated to two Latvian poets – Rainis (Janis Plieksans, 1865-1929) and Aspazija (Elza Rozenberga-Plieksane, 1868-1943). It was presided...
02.03.2015 - 17:35
James Mace’s last present
James Mace was born on February 18. To commemorate the American expert on Ukrainian history the Memorial Library of James Mace has been opened at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (...
02.03.2015 - 17:29
The fearless win
Early in 2015, Old Lion Publishing House released book The War That Changed Rondo, authored and illustrated by members of the Agrafka Creative Workshop Romana Romanyshyn and Andrii Lesiv. The book...
02.03.2015 - 17:27
It Is Ours and Yours
The Lesia Ukrainka Prize of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, awarded annually for literary and artistic works for children and youth on its namesake writer’s birthday, went to PLUS PLUS TV...
02.03.2015 - 17:26
Sending some warmth to the frontline
The display takes place at the exhibition hall, in Kherson regional branch of the National Union of Artists. Oksana Osnach, a renowned local artist, presented a few dozen of her works from different...