№17, (2006)

Last Sunday a Ukrainian film crew left on a tour of NATO member states to make a movie about the North Atlantic alliance. The production is being sponsored by Ukraine’s foreign affairs and defense...

From elections to elections: this has been the main characteristic-the engine and helm of the political process in Ukraine for the past 10 years. At the same time, it is the main obstacle to...

Poland has been a member of the European Union for two years and NATO, since 1999. Naturally, our western neighbor has accumulated considerable experience in the sphere of integration, which may come...

Unfortunately it’s a long way to a truly noble goal, and it takes a lot of steps. “Right to Joy — An Exhibit for Children Challenged by Destiny,” which just opened at the Center for Contemporary Art...

May 30 1876: Russian tsar Alexander II signs the Ems Ukase banning the publication and importation of literature in Ukrainian, as well as staging plays in Ukrainian. 1923: The Ukrainian Historical-...

Last week an intercollegiate student conference entitled “Prominent State-Building Figures” was held at Kyiv National University of Internal Affairs. Symon Petliura, Ivan Mazepa, Danylo Halytsky, and...

The legendary, globe-trotting couturier Paco Rabanne has a soft spot for our country, which he has visited several times. He summed up the changes he has seen in the following metaphor: “Ukraine...

Last Sunday the National Opera of Ukraine premiered Giacomo Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut. This is a joint Italian-American-Ukrainian production sponsored by the embassies of the US and Italy in...

A new organization has emerged in the post-Soviet space. At least its organizers wanted to present it this way, although it should be described as a somewhat altered structure of the existing GUAM...

St. Petersburg is a great place in early summer, when the “White Nights” bathe the city’s imperial palac es and avenues. Small wonder, then, that Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to show off...

Another political entity appeared in Ukraine recently, the Coalition of Public and Political Forces “For the Dictatorship of the Law, Democracy, and Unity of the People of Ukraine.” The Web site...

The staff photographer and I arrived at a bad time, when director Mykola Mashchenko was mad as hell that the shooting was not going well. The pyrotechnic specialists couldn’t get their explosions...

CONTEMPORARIES OF INDEPENDENCE With this feature article by Stanislav Kulchytsky, a noted historian and regular contributor to our newspaper, the editors of The Day are launching a series of...

The Day’s Library Series already numbers five books, and none of the publications have gone unnoticed. This was born out at a meeting with well-known scholars, who are members of the Academy of...

In July Kyiv will host a Ukrainian-Russian forum on the post-election investment climate in Ukraine, following the agreement reached last April between Anatoliy Kinakh, president of the Ukrainian...