№15, (2004)

Diplomatically speaking, the Russian Duma acted in an unexpected manner the very next day after ratifying the SES agreement with Ukraine, adopting a message to Verkhovna Rada, expressing concern over...

In the mid-1830s, Nikolai Gogol (Mykola Hohol) arrived in Paris, leaving behind in Petersburg many problems, such as conflicts with censors and publishers. What badgered him the most was the fact...

When compiling his collection of poetry, Returning to Europe (Warsaw, 1931), Polish writer Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz included in it his translation of Yevhen Malaniuk’s lyrical epistle To Jaroslaw...

A traditional Ukrainian hairstylist contest was held as part of the Svit Krasy (The World of Beauty) Festival. It served as a dress rehearsal of the world championships in Milan and a qualifier for...

Prominent Kyiv-based sculptor Svitlana Karunska has put on two personal exhibitions — practically one after the other: My Own Room, held at Mykola’s House, was followed by Capriccio Misterioso at the...

Marquis Adolphe de Custine wrote that a closer look at one’s destiny shows it to be an evolution of one’s character. However, let me first explain the heading. Joseph Stalin called Nikita...

Recently the world famous Castle Bridge of Kamyanets-Podilsky, one of a hundred UNESCO heritage sites, was closed. As The Day learned from Kamyanets-Podilsky Executive Committee Organizing and...

SERHIY TULUB Newly appointed Fuel and Energy Minister Serhiy Tulub, who also continues in the position of Enerhoatom president, did not have to wait long for his first news conference. Last...

When actor Bohdan Stupka recently visited The Day, he told a funny story. On the film location in a faraway Russian village, he saw a lush flowerbed next to the only surviving house. He talked to the...

I spoke to the manager of a Kyiv hospital and eventually he broached the painful subject of medications, food for the patients, which is supposed to be rich in vitamins, and how the wards were...

Practically 90% of the people living in the Russian Federation consider themselves Rossiyane, Russians. Such keen awareness of the national identity was recorded by experts of the Russian Academy’s...

By nominating Viktor Yanukovych as the only presidential candidate from the parliamentary government coalition, those in power have apparently begun to plot their election campaign strategy. Of...

On May 1, Ukraine will become neighbor of the European Union both de jure and de facto, since on this day ten new members are to join the Union of Coal and Steel. In this connection, great...

The army of those who suffered from the Chornobyl power plant disaster now comprises over three million people, including more than a million children. It is next to impossible to fully estimate...

April 20 witnessed major compromises achieved in Verkhovna Rada. Three intergovernmental documents addressing Ukrainian-Russian relations were ratified. The first was an agreement on the state...