№19, (2009)
07.07.2009 - 00:00
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s historic resolution
Debates on the historical roots of, and interrelationships between, the 20th-century totalitarian regimes — those of Stalin and Hitler in the first place — and on ways of coping with this...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Breaking the Climate Deadlock
LONDON – On July 9, the leaders of the world’s largest economies will meet in L’Aquila, Italy, at the Major Economies Forum (MEF) to discuss progress towards a new global climate agreement. In six...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Solar Impulse
SWITZERLAND — After his first balloon flight to the upper atmosphere, Auguste Piccard said that the point in question is not that man can fly further and reach planets; it is how man can get...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Hlukhiv, a city of resounding glory
At present there are four penal facilities and a detention facility in Sumy oblast. Nearly 4,000 inmates are serving their sentences there. However, not many people know that some buildings on their...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Project Syndicate and its 149 friends in the world
Den/The Day readers have always noticed and appreciated Project Syndicate publications — exclusive materials written by well-known political leaders and public figures, world-acclaimed scholars, etc...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Ukraine to have more railroad routes to Europe
Ukraine’s railroad companies keep ahead of the pack as compared to other carriers. They rank sixth in the world and fourth in Eurasia in terms of freight deliveries, lagging behind China, Russia...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Mazepa’s many faces: constructive, tragic, tragicomic
Frankly, I was not exactly bursting with this subject. I had been watching for some time the aggrandizement of Ivan Mazepa in today’s Ukraine and saying to myself: any country needs heroes. Yet...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Kyiv Sophia Preserve may lose UNESCO protection
Most countries of the world do not even dare build skyscrapers or entertainment complexes that do not blend with the historical panorama of the city, all the more so near the monuments included in...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Lenin monument on Shevchenko Boulevard: Is there anything wrong?
Early in the morning on June 30 some members of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists publicly vandalized the statue of Lenin in downtown Kyiv. This event caused much more stir in the media than,...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Ukraine’s statehood in the 18th century
Unlike their parents, the generations of Cossack intellectuals of the late 1720s through the late 1750s lived in a new political situation and different intellectual atmosphere. They remembered...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Prayer for Ukraine
On July 2, 2009, the Saint Nicholas Church in Kyiv attracted bishops, parish priests, and believers representing Ukraine’s three most influential religions — Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Legendary Petrykivka
Zaporizhia—Petrykivka — After visiting the famous village of Petrykivka in Dnipropetrovsk oblast, one cannot help wondering: What would Ukraine be without the Petrykivka ornament? The founding of...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Ukraine turns into a dreamland
Ethnic festivals are very popular all over the world — they always attract a huge number of music lovers. Ukraine is no exception. But in our country they also have a political subtext. For,...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
This week in history
July 7 1941: The Soviet South-West Front launches a series of combat operations to defend Kyivn that were important in wrecking the Third Reich’s blitzkrieg strategy. 2004: St. Nicholas Church,...
07.07.2009 - 00:00
Peeping into Iraq’s future
Deputy Foreign Minister of the Iraq Republic Labid Abawi has recently paid a visit to Ukraine. He conducted consultations with his Ukrainian colleagues in Mykhailivska Street and took part in the...