№15, (2011)

The State Library of Ukraine opened the photo exhibit “Homeless Life” on March 10. It is dedicated to cats and dogs that need a place to stay. It includes photos from the Sirius and SOS shelters, as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The situation in Japan remains extremely complicated, what with media reports about a volcano awakened by the earthquake, and yet another explosion at Fukushima Dai-ichi causing a dangerous...

The whole world is trying to help Japan, which suffered from an earthquake of a magnitude of 9.0 on March 11, 2011, and the ensuing tsunami that reached heights of up to 10 meters. As of March 16,...

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...

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,...

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...

Zhytomyr – The growing shortage of drinking water around the world has caused a boom in the development of innovative technologies for its purification. No wonder, since we take our drinking water...

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

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...

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...

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...