№18, (2007)

Arsen Richynsky was born 115 years ago, on June 12, 1892 (Old Style; New Style: June 25). Although the anniversary of his birth is not a round figure this year, it is still an occasion to remember...

In the first half of June Kyiv saw the opening of the Museum of Soviet Occupation. The organizers (first of all, the Vasyl Stus Memorian Society) claim the aim of this is to reproduce a full...

Nearly two months have passed since Ukraine and Poland won the bid to host the final tournament of the European soccer championship in 2012. Last Friday, the Ministry for Regional Development and...

On June 12 The Day’s team arrived in Chechelnyk, a small town in Vinnytsia oblast. After visiting the series of wonderful exhibits in Kyiv, Ostroh, Kharkiv, and Chernivtsi, some people would be taken...

Drawing a portrait of the average resident of Kyiv, as the capital’s sociologists and political strategists set about doing this recently at a roundtable called “The Average Resident of Kyiv: Who Is...

June 19 1925: Kyiv hosts the world’s first exhibition devoted to global expanses. 1996: Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan sign a friendship and cooperation treaty. June 20 1918: The All-Ukraine Church Council...

On June 15, 2007, the Verkhovna Rada of the fifth convocation de facto ceased to exist. Deputy Speaker Adam Martyniuk finally announced that 46 MPs from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and Our...

“All nuclear tests and any other nuclear explosions shall be banned” is the key phrase in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that was proposed by the UN General Assembly and opened for...

The More druziv (An Ocean of Friends) competition for young pop singers was founded in Yalta in 1996. This year was the third time it was held at Ukraine Palace in Kyiv, the country’s most...

Brussels and Kyiv have different visions of Ukraine’s future place in an enlarged Europe. Although there is nothing unusual about this, a European future and the paths to the European Union are also...

William Miller, who was the second US ambassador to Ukraine since our country declared its independence, arrived in Kyiv to take part in the international forum “Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future.” He...

In an article published on June 12, 2007, in The Day, Larysa Ivshyna touched upon the important topic of the current Ukrainian elite or, as Galician intellectuals used to say, the ruling stratum. I...

What do American experts think about Vladimir Putin’s declarations that Russia may aim its missiles at the EU in response to US plans to deploy parts of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense...

The abode of thought: this philosophical image of the human brain suggests something lofty and unfathomable. But from the standpoint of medical treatment, the brain is a vulnerable element. Cerebral...

The All-Ukraine benevolent TV project “Missing Children Search Service,” which is aimed at reuniting as many street children as possible with their families, is marking its sixth year of service to...