№15, (2011)

One of the most highly awaited new Ukrainian films is the work of renowned script writer and film director Aleksandr Mindadze, Innocent Saturday, which addresses the Chornobyl disaster. The world...

US ambassador to Ukraine John Tefft rarely gives interviews to the media. During his year as the head of the diplomatic mission in Kyiv he gave four interviews. While some may regret not hearing...

On the last day of the world biathlon championship in Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia), the Ukrainian women’s team, consisting of the sisters Valia and Vita Semerenko, Olena Pidhrushna and Oksana...

DNIPROPETROVSK – A group of journalists of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) shot material for the program One Square Mile. In past years the program’s television crew visited many cities in...

For anybody committed to European values, violence against women is a barbaric act. Incidentally, in Ukraine, a country known for its Amazons and militant Cossack wives, this “tradition...

At the farmstead of Buda, near Maksym Zalizniak’s millennial oak tree (which remembers the times of Yaroslav the Wise and the ancient woods of Kholodny Yar, and where plants from the...

1926: A monument to Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Poltava. 1937: A law is enacted in the USSR, forbidding peasants to leave collective farms unless they are under contract with another employer,...

LUTSK – In 1998 the Volynian Icon Museum, the only establishment of this sort in Ukraine, last published a printed review of its exhibits. Yet that minor publication cannot compare to the current...

The 3rd National Stepan Nazarenko Competition Photoportrait 2011 has been launched in Ukraine. It was first held in Ivano-Frankivsk in 2007, on the 75th anniversary of Nazarenko’s birth (born in 1932...

On January 1, 2011, new rules governing the terms for internal and international trade (Incoterms-2010) came into effect throughout the world and, consequently, in Ukraine as well. They were...

The Women’s Epee World Cup has come to an end in Barcelona (Spain). Ukrainian Yana She­mia­­kina won the silver in the indivi­dual competition. She won five fights but lost to...

On May 15, parliament adopted the long-suffering anti-corruption bill in the second reading, albeit without three articles and the conclusion. They were postponed until Friday or even the next...

The Cabinet of Ministers wants to exempt high-tech companies from paying taxes. Deputy Prime Minister and Social Policy Minister Serhii Tihipko told a meeting of the task force in charge of drawing...

Europe is a land of unexpected encounters. Every time as I cross its borders I am again convinced that there can never be too much history. The mixture of ethnicities and races can also produce...

Interestingly, The Day carried a series of publications about Mykola Khriienko’s project “Ukrainians beyond the Urals” simultaneously with the Russian authorities attack on...