№16, (2011)

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...

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...

Ukraine is one of the most promising players on the world agrarian market. Leading domestic and international agriculture specialists ceaselessly repeat this statement. With a population of 46...

  Ukraine ready to receive 250 Japanese children for rehabilitation  President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine has visited the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine and signed the Book of...

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...

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,...

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...

Over twenty years of breeding Ihor Khorosh has collected more than 70 types of iris. But he and Lina Kostenko’s fans admire the strains made for the poetess most of all. Last summer Ihor...

Fans of professional boxing eagerly awaited the bout between Vitali Klitschko and Odlanier Solis, as it was expected to be a great competitive show. The Cuban boxer, an Olympic champion and three-...

“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...

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...

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...

Dnipropetrovsk – The alpinists plan to climb the four-kilometer tall mountain in the Caucasus this summer. Valerii Lomyha, the head of the expedition, told a press conference that the story of this...

The world is still shocked by the horrible tragedy in Japan. Den has already reported (see the issue of March 15, 2011) on the courageous behavior of the Japanese in this situation. We asked...

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...