№16, (2009)

In time of crisis, when most Ukrainians have to tighten their belts and cut down on their expenditures, Ukraine continues to live beyond its means. The Ukrainian cabinet appears to have found the...

Last Sunday the Russian Information Agency Novosti published an interesting news item about the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril consecrating the tombstones on the graves of the Russian...

Dear Ms. Ivshyna, On behalf of the student body of Lviv Polytechnic National University I would like to express our sincere gratitude to The Day and you as its editor in chief for the opportunity...

Olha Seniuk’s Ukrainian translation of Poltava by the Swedish author Peter Englund will be published in Ukraine in conjunction with the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. Seniuk was born in...

In the past two weeks President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and MPs have spoken on better conditions for entrepreneurs, and parliament has started voting through the much-...

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Winston Churchill There seems nothing more important for the Russian government than correct interpretation...

Poland is ahead of schedule in its preparations for the 2012 European Soccer Championship. The UEFA commission recently visited Poland and Ukraine to assess the situation and approved the progress...

Despite the fact that the MPs have not yet decided on the date of the presidential elections, the electioneering wave has de facto swept across Ukraine. Politicians of different colors and calibers...

Warsaw — The 20th anniversary of winning freedom after the fall of communism in Central Europe will be celebrated in Krakow on June 4. It will be an opportunity for all Europeans to think once again...

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has tackled the problems faced by peasants. She has held what she described as the “most important meeting in her life,” having gathered in Kyiv the heads of village...

A leader or a ruling clique determines not only the future but also the past. “If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’ — well, it never happened. If he says that two and two...

The premiere of the art project entitled “Noble Vechornytsi: Ukrainian High Style” is scheduled to take place in the Ball Room of the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel on June 3. Tetyana Mironova’s gallery...

It is hard to say precisely what kind of relationships the well-known peasants’ otaman Nestor Makhno had with the communists, because they were much too complicated and contradictory. On the one hand...

The amazing town of Lokhvytsia in the Poltava region… This legendary place is crowned with Cossack glory and war- and peacetime exploits of many generations. Sylvestr Kosiv, Ivan Mazepa, and Petro...

June 2 1990: The 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of the Union of Independent Ukrainian Youth is convened. June 3 1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys arrive in Moscow to propose joint military actions...