№16, (2011)

The company Ukrainian Energy Exchange, based on data from Ukrenerho, estimated that if the Ukrainian energy field continues to be deprived of investments, then around 2013-14 it may reach a critical...

On March 27 through April 2 the Donetsk-based Solovianenko National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet will host the 7th Serge Lifar International Competition of Ballet. It is held under the...

Sophia Kyivska has hosted an exhibit featuring the works of seven artists from Ivano-Frankivsk. The artists have toured almost all of Ukraine with the exposition. Though working in different genres...

The Russian presidential elections (to take place in a year) will have a direct impact on Russia’s neighbors, to which it applies a carrot-and-stick policy. For example, recently Russia...

Russia is apt at employing the stick-and-carrot tactic with regard to its not quite equal “strategic” partners. On March 15 Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demonstrated this in Minsk at a...

Rivne oblast – When Liudmyla Bondar from the village of Velyky Zholudsk delivered a boy, the doctors’ verdict was grim: the boy was condemned to infirmity as he suffered from a serious pathology of...

Rosava does not grab headlines so often, though she need not worry about it. She knows her work and does it without ado. For eight years now she has headed the Committee selecting talented youth...

1654: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys arrive in Moscow to negotiate the status of the Zaporozhian Sich as a member of Muscovy. 1669: In Korsun, Cossack starshyna nobility, jointly with Petro Doroshenko,...

Japanese journalists are working round the clock. The Day got proof of this when we contacted the staff of The Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s most widely circulated newspaper. Asking their...

On March 18, the publishing house Hrani-T presented two books printed in Braille: Lesia Voronina’s The Stranger from the Niamlykland (part of the “Contemporary Children’s Fiction...

In 1859-61, Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian career diplomat who was later to become the famous German chancellor, was posted to St. Petersburg as Ambassador of Frederick William IV of Prussia....

Literally hours after the UN Security Council’s resolution on no fly zones over Libya, coalition forces hit military targets in that country. Sanctions against Libya were put to a vote late...

“Soft” rather than “hard power” will call the shots in the 21st century, unlike in the past two hundred years, believes Joseph S. Nye Jr., dean of the Kennedy School of...

There is now a specific answer to the question of whether Ukraine will one day have its own Silicon Valley. It was given by the physics teacher Lidia Kushnir from the village of Balanivka, Bershadsky...

When the brass wind quintet Kyiv Brass performs at the National House of Organ and Chamber Music, the house is usually full. No wonder: the combination of two trumpets, a French horn, a trombone,...