№17, (2006)

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...

THE PRINCE’S FAMILY LINE AND MARRIAGE It takes a lifetime to forget cruelty. According to the chronicler Nestor’s Tale of Bygone Years, our hero, Prince Ihor, was an inadvertent witness to military...

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...

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...

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...

They say that a woman’s mind is never young. A woman is already of 3,000 years old at birth. A lot of people know cliches like that. I instantly fell in love with Zhenia Hapchynska, a female artist...

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...

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 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...

The phrase “rural tourism” (“green tourism”) usually stumps people. What can you do in a village? What is there to see, say Ukrainians who are not familiar with this kind of tourism. Village...

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...

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...

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...

As though in response to Russia’s gas ultimatums, the last one coming from Gazprom’s deputy head Aleksandr Ryazanov, concerning price increases (up to $120-130 per thousand cubic meters), Naftohaz...

Visitors to the festival have a unique opportunity to taste the best Georgian wines and cognacs. Georgian winemakers chose one of Kyiv’s most expensive clubs as the venue of their festival showcasing...