№19, (2012)

1921: An emergency session of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee adopts a decree replacing the prodrazverstka food apportionment or surplus appropriation system with the production tax (...

For artist Yurii Kamyshny this is already the fifth trip to this sunny and exotic country. After wandering the length and breadth of India barefoot the artist came back to his native land filled...

It is a new step, an attempt to offer a different quality of the public dialogue, a discussion between politicians and the young active part of society. This step is perhaps still to be duly...

Europe condemns Belarus for executing the “Minsk terrorists.” It is echoed by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s statement: “Ukraine is known to have consistently supported...

This year Ukraine stands every chance of becoming the first country to sustain sanctions applied in accordance with the Aarhus Convention (in full: the UNECE Convention on Access to Information,...

There are people without whom it is impossible to imagine a city’s cultural landscape. In Lviv, they are represented by the whole pleiad of Zankovetska Theater, including Yurii Brylynsky...

When Ukraine restored independence, one of the urgent measures to protect its statehood was establishment of its own intelligence agency. As time went by, this country became in need of a high-...

The Ukrainian parliament did not surprise anyone. Recently it approved by 270 votes in the first reading the proposal of the Party of Region MP Ivan Popesku on the fulfilment of the PACE resolution...

Yesterday the well-known Ukrainian businessman and politician Petro Poroshenko came to work to the Cabinet Council. After nearly two weeks of consideration he accepted the post of minister of...

Days of Ukrainian Culture are scheduled in Armenia from March 21 to March 28. Nayiri Publishers marked this occasion by printing Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky’s novelette Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors...

In its previous issues The Day has already reported about the tragedy of Oksana Makar from the Mykolaiv oblast and Anastasia Saltanova from Simferopol. These terrible events the society has...

Consumption-based billing should become obligatory in Ukraine. Such is the World Bank (WB) analysts’ recommendation in their just published study “Modernization of the District Heating...

The city’s mayor Andrii Sadovy has proposed to name two streets leading to the Euro stadium after Lviv soccer legends Karol Miklosz and Lev Brovarsky: “These two streets have no name...

Dear Speaker, and dear members of parliament! On September 20, 1991, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a resolution on the creating of the National Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). It was...

This year the multigenre French Spring in Ukraine festival will kick off on April 4, at 8:30 p.m., in Sophia Square in Kyiv and will begin with the play Crazy Bell-Ringers by the street theater...