№16, (2003)

The national revival, now underway in Ukraine and many other states of the modern world, cannot be reduced to a simple restoration of the cultural heritage of past epochs. It requires a special...

All those who have visited Odesa’s Two Days and Nights of New Music even once are not likely to dispute my saying that this festival has long taken its own clearly outlined place on the cultural map...

Every day, passengers of the metropolitan funicular railroad are greeted by the four-legged blondes, Shaiba and Bilka. “They are our pride,” Funicular Manager Stepan Kokhan says affectionately of the...

Every second Sunday of May the all-Ukrainian Memorial Society holds Commemoration Days for Victims of the Totalitarian Regime. It is hardly necessary to explain to any Ukrainians why the Bykivnia...

My colleague Serhiy Makhun writes in the article “Archoligarch Count Mikhail Vorontsov” (The Day, April 22, 2003, No. 14), “Contemporaries called Vorontsova ‘one of the most attractive women of our...

On May 13-18 Kyiv hosted the Fantastic World of Berlioz International Festival organized by the French Cultural Center, Embassy of France to Ukraine, National Philharmonic of Ukraine, French...

The Jazz Theater musical agency and Embassy of Armenia with the support of the General Direction on Services for Foreign Representatives hold a concert of the Yerevan Jazz Quintet at the Kyiv...

A new exhibition opened at the Obolon Children’s Academy of the Arts called Muse of Kindness, Enter Our Souls! Young artist Hanna Sokolova combined her own works with paintings of her 24 pupils,...

On the eve of the First International Valery Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament, the Kyiv Dynamo Stadium, renamed in his honor last May, witnessed the unveiling of a sculptural composition with the coach...

For starters, in order to create at least a semblance of a polemic I will stress a single point on which I could argue with Prof. Aheyeva. This is in fact a trifle, perhaps even a personal thing....

This feature starts a series debating the teaching standard at Ukrainian schools in general and the instruction of literature in particular. Prof. Vira Aheyeva offers her views, which we believe...

Any unbiased observer can see that the Ukrainian language, not Russian, needs protection in today’s Ukraine. Those in doubt should spend a day on the streets in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad,...

As for foreign experience, when revising the old law on self-government, our eastern neighbors studied over 200 laws and finally concluded that they needed to draft a new one. To quote Vladimir...

This time The Day’s guest is His Eminence Archbishop Grigoris Buniatian, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Ecumenical Church. Compared to Eastern Orthodox, Greek Catholic adherents, or...

(Concluded from the previous issue) There is yet another catastrophe, the ecological. There is perhaps no country that has not sustained its own environmental catastrophes, but our Chornobyl is...