№18, (2000)

The quiet miniature public garden in front of the Ivan Franko Theater became a small mecca on Kyiv Day, as a statue of a wonderful man, People’s Artist of Ukraine Mykola Yakovchenko was unveiled...

Everybody looked forward to his visit and the latter was promoted like an eight wonder. It was constantly on the air and front pages. The whole thing reminded one of Soviet publicity campaigns...

As it has already been reported, World Bank director for Ukraine and Belarus, Luca Barbone, has arrived in Ukraine to discuss the further pattern of cooperation between this country and the World...

St. Michael’s Cathedral was consecrated May 28. The ceremony was attended by the President, Prime Minister, numerous MPs, ministers, and Kyiv Mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko. The rite was performed by...

There is an ever-increasing number of publications reflecting interest in Ukraine’s past, and many of them have devoted articles to the Tereshchenko family, the late nineteenth/early twentieth...

June 6: Day of the Journalist of Ukraine; 1768. A people’s liberation anti-feudal uprising, referred to as Koliyivshchyna , began in the Right- Bank Ukraine against the Polish nobility’s yoke...

The President signed on May 29 the decree “On Forming a Commission to Draw Up Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine and other Bills Proceeding from the Results of the Public-Initiated National...

“We are building the Armed Forces to effectively secure our defenses and for enthusiastic applause from the West,” Ukraine’s Defense Minister General of the Army Oleksandr Kuzmuk declared in Kyiv...

A draft program of Ukraine’s membership in the European Union is to be discussed by the Cabinet of Ministers in upcoming sessions, revealed acting Minister of Economics Viktor Kalnyk. According...

Kyiv’s Lavra Art Gallery has become the capital’s principal venue for art lovers, and has recently hosted two major cultural events. The first was A Look at Art Nouveau exhibition, featuring...

The building at 10, Bankova street, is known to almost all Kyivites as the “Chimera House.” Part of the urban mythology of the city, the legends surrounding it as there are as fantastic as the...

On May 30th, the hammer and sickle symbol of a non-existent state on the Verkhovna Rada building facade gave way to the trident emblem of Ukraine. The decision to remove the Soviet symbols from...

The Day’s correspondent Klara Gudzyk has received an invitation from the Vatican’s information service to visit the Vatican and take part in the Holy Year festivities devoted to the 2000th...

Premier Viktor Yushchenko’s visit to Brussels left Kyiv feeling optimistic. Subsequent official statements sounded hopeful; some day the doors to the European Union would open to Ukraine, it would...

I recently happened to see a copy of the newspaper Russkaya zhizn (Russian Life). Among the materials dedicated to the 55th anniversary of end of WW II, there was an article titled “Stalingrad...