№2, (2012)
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“Traditions beautify, but not replace, feasts”
Today the Orthodox and Greek Catholics are celebrating Epiphany, also known in the Ukrainian folk tradition as Baptism of Our Lord. The feast was established in memory of an evangelical event...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Letters to Ukraine – 12
What do our commercials say about us? Imagine yourself an explorer from another galaxy, stumbling across Earth. For technical reasons, you can stay for several minutes only. You’re beamed down, by...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1652: Cossack envoys, led by Colonel Ivan Iskra, start traveling from Chyhyryn to Moscow to make an alliance with Muscovy. 1906: Shershen, Ukraine’s first illustrated socialist weekly eight-page...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
On the particularities of presidential campaign in Finland, or What role the EU topic, the eurozone crisis, and values play in these elections
Next Sunday Finland is going to elect its next president. According to that country’s observers, these elections are very important, as were all the previous ones, even though the head of state now...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Borys MYKHAILOV: “I am looking for amazement”
The Spectrum International Prize for Photography is awarded by the Foundation of Lower Saxony (Germany) and the Sprengel Museum Hannover. The jury of the prize recognized Borys Mykhailov to be one...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“Tuning fork that always rings”
Each year on January 14, day of St. Basil, the prominent personalities with name Vasyl are remembered: Vasyl Stus, Vasyl Symonenko, Vasyl Chumak, Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny. They all were born around...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Another Euro-2012 challenge
The Ukrainians who are going to visit European Union countries must take care, well in advance, about the “plastic content” of their wallets. From January 1, 2012, on, one can get cash from European...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“With name of Borys Liatoshynsky we made ourselves known in history of world’s music”
Borys Liatoshynsky Prize and Mykhailo Verykivsky Prize are awarded on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and the National Union of Composers of Ukraine – they are the co-founders of the prestigious...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
“Pursuing the preemptive tactic while the state is inert”
The book The Power of the Soft Sign has been republished for the first time. The publishers say that there is no precedent for such popularity of serious social and political works.
The demand...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Big Ben’s older brother
The difference in age of clock brothers in Lviv and London is seven years. “The clock on Lviv City Hall was installed in 1851,” told The Day Ilko LEMKO, expert in Lviv study. “The...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Russia’s civilization model? It’s autocracy
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin published a “programing” article in the Moscow-based Izvestia daily. “Russia Is Concentrating: Challenges that We Must Meet,”...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Mykhailo CHECHETOV: I’m grateful to opposition
Mykhailo Chechetov cuts a spectacular figure as a Ukrainian MP, simply because he is always ready to support even the most dubious initiative of the current regime with five-dollar words.
It is...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Kyiv’s “horizontal line of command”
Oleksandr Popov, head of the Kyiv City State Administration, is lucky enough to have had “good” predessors. Even if Popov showed no activity at all, he would still stand out against the...
19.01.2012 - 00:00
Neo-Nazi threat behind a national democracy front?
Today Moscow is holding a march and a rally in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. Novaya gazeta says the Moscow mayor has approved both events, while St. Petersburg has banned a...
