№18, (2008)

The Day is one of only a few newspapers — and the only sociopolitical periodical — with an English-language weekly digest. Thanks to our varied circle of experts, whose comments are regularly...

Ivan Franko died on May 28, 1916. If you know this, you are one of the few people in Ukraine who do. Franko is not unfamiliar to Ukrainians. But are we aware of the true magnitude of this writer?...

Ukrainians can moan and groan about the absence of a national cinema until the cows come home. They can champion its national essence by banning all languages but their own on movie theater screens....

Dnipropetrovsk is not Ukraine’s number-one city, but neither is it number two. This maxim, which appeared during Leonid Kuchma’s presidency, was a favorite with his fellow countrymen, who would often...

The recent revaluation of the hryvnia will directly affect only a proportion of Ukrainian citizens: those who have savings. However, down the road the measures adopted by the National Bank of Ukraine...

Journalism can and must form values, no matter how dubious this idea may sound. Ukrainian society, which declared its goal to become democratic after leaving the post-totalitarian space, is in...

The recent NATO summit in Bucharest must have been a cold shower for our national democrats, forcing them to switch from rhetoric about the need to conduct explanatory work about NATO to concrete...

Israel recently celebrated its 60th birthday. Many world leaders, including US President George Bush, visited Israel to mark this anniversary, which received extensive coverage in the international...

During his recent visit to Ukraine, Afghanistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Rangin Dadfar SPANTA brought some good news: the president of Afghanistan will visit Ukraine this year. What hopes is...

The entry of any country into NATO is a kind of litmus test of its statehood, and one can convince the population of the necessity to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization only with the help of...

Every woman dreams of becoming a happy mother. When this miracle occurs every mother wants to remember forever the first days of her child. This dream came true for several dozen women in Ukraine and...

On May 27, 2008, an exhibit entitled “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army: The History of the Unvanquished” opened at the Security Service of Ukraine. This large exhibit, which includes over 500...

It is not enough to be a good artist or a talented architect to participate in the Architectural Suite exhibit. The participants see both things as their vocation: educated as architects, they devote...

An interesting initiative recently emerged here in Brussels, which may be very advantageous to Kyiv and its future bid for membership in the European Union. The Polish government, together with its...

June 3 1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys arrive in Moscow to propose joint military actions against the Kingdom of Poland.1906: The first issue of the journal Ukrainskyi visnyk , the organ of the...