№2, (2011)

The Russian South Stream gas pipeline project has been a thorn in Ukraine’s side. President, premier and energy-sector officials repeatedly argued that renovating the Ukrainian gas transit...

Continued from previous issue The first stage of Mykola Khriienko’s project “Ukrainians beyond the Urals” was the most difficult – it lasted the longest (seven months and...

Some mysterious romantic haze seems to be veiling the name and deeds of this ruler even now, 835 years after his tragic death. A reckless and gallant warrior; a tough, often cruel, but always fair...

  Smoking rates drop by 10 percent  According to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, in 2005-2010, the smoking rates (including episodic smoking) among the Ukrainian...

The pupils of the Kherson non-specialized school No. 56 were delighted when they returned home after their winter vacation. They had celebrated their Christmas holidays in western Ukraine....

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is raising the alarm and forecasts a new global crisis because farm produce prices reached an all-time high in December 2010. Ukraine, the world...

On December 17 Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old street vendor, attempted self-immolation in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid after police confiscated his produce cart. To hammer in the...

According to the information of the Ecological and Cultural Center in Kyiv, there are more than 500 ancient trees in Ukraine. However, half of them are not protected. There are 82 trees that are...

Besides music, in which he took an organic interest since childhood, Oleksii Kuznietsov has also been engaged in boxing, in order to be able to defend himself. He was very successful in sports, but...

1661: The Polish king grants Lviv’s Jesuit College the academic status of university. 1918: Soviet Russia’s People’s Secretariat adopts a decree on the formation of the Workers and Peasants’ Red Army...

Dictionaries define the term “diaspora” as a national or ethnic community of people living outside their ethnic homeland and still feeling spiritual ties with their ancestral lands. Naturally,...

Lviv ceramics, and Anna Lysyk’s works in particular, are well known at The Day, and adorn the editor-in-chief’s office. Just before the New Year The Day’s correspondent in Lviv...

Sad but true: Ukraine doesn’t offer an attractive business environment these days. Local businessmen are hard put to come to terms with the bureaucrats and rampant corruption, which means...

On January 17, a protest action against the political persecution of the Maidan-2 activists and representatives of patriotic organizations, in particular Tryzub (Trident), that supported the...

The planet’s resources are being tapped as never before, a problem only sporadically addressed by energy-saving governmental programs, and even then only in a nominal manner. We treat nature in a...