№19, (2009)

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...

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...

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,...

Ostroh Academy held the fourth meeting of the Consortium of Ukrainian universities and the University of Warsaw, which was set up in 2005. Now the consortium includes eight universities, so the...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...