№15, (2009)

Aided by Lviv’s Directorate for Euro-2012 Information and Promotion, FC Lviv has organized a graffiti festival at the local Sokil stadium. Nearly two dozen young Ukrainian artists have decorated the...

(Conclusion. For beginning see The Day No. 13 and 14)6. A BLOW TO THE NATION-STATEIt is an established fact that mass terror was the key tool for running the state under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph...

Theoretically, the period of the initial accumulation of capital should be over by now, as well as the kind of politics that typically accompanies it. Today most powerful figures in Ukraine...

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced that BYut will participate in the presidential elections. The news came at the open meeting of the government, which was called to address the problems...

A recent law passed by the Verkhovna Rada has forced heavy gamblers in Ukraine to put off the dreams of hitting the jackpot for an unspecified period. It is also unclear now whether gambling business...

Dear Ms. Ivshyna:Perhaps nothing else serves to uphold a newspaper’s prestige as does its consistent, unswerving editorial policy. This is also true of the all-Ukrainian daily newspaper Den’,...

As a kid I loved books about American Indians because these people were so very much like our Zaporozhian Cossacks with their love for freedom, mental sharpness, inbred understanding of nature,...

“I often reflect on why mum is working in Spain and dad in the Czech Republic, while I am here in Ukraine with granny,” writes Olena Frankova, 11, from Khmelnytsky oblast. This is a quote from a...

His name has become known in France in the early 1990s. Schmitt’s first works La nuit de Valognes (Don Juan on Trial) and Le Visiteur (Visitor) became popular immediately after publication, and the...

On May 20, 2009, a historic event for the Ukrainian soccer took place in Istanbul, Turkey. For the first time a soccer team representing independent Ukraine won the UEFA Cup. Defeating Werder (Bremen...

As part of the project Ukrainian Fashion Games in Peloponnesus, Greece, Ukrainian designers presented their creative views of Greece. Light and vivid images coupled with bright summer colors...

Sept. 4, 2009, is the 200th birth anniversary of Juliusz Slowacki, a Polish romantic poet, who had Ukrainian roots and wrote about Ukraine. He was very well aware of Ukraine’s problems and was, in a...

This is the first time we are celebrating an anniversary of the unique 12th-century architectural monument located in the north-eastern part of Kyiv, in Dorohozhychi. The museum’s history started in...

May 26 1648: Cossack troops led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeat the Poles in the Battle of Korsun. May 27 1657: The Holy Roman Empire enters into an alliance with the Kingdom of Poland (Rzeczpospolita)...

I would like to assure you straight away that we have nothing against contemporary Ukrainian literature. Thank goodness, we have it. As for classical Ukrainian literature, it is no longer “cool” to...