№20, (2008)

Leigh Turner, Britain’s newly-appointed ambassador to Ukraine, was surprisingly quick to assume his duties. As The Day was told in the British Embassy, Mr. Turner arrived in Kyiv the Friday before...

Lviv in the mid-1930s. A young man is sitting at a writing desk, his pen dripping words inspired by fresh memories of his childhood: Bird cherry trees, like smoking candles, rise from the evening’s...

The Fifth International Ethnic Festival called Kraina Mrii (the Dreamland) took place on the Spivoche pole (the Singling Field) this weekend. As time has shown, the Dreamland as well as the name of...

The Ukrainian government has learned to discuss NATO with the correct terminology. It is hoped that our state leaders will also learn how to implement its European integration policy and get closer...

Six months from now a new president will be elected in the United States. Despite all the difficulties that emerged during George Bush's presidency, the US is still the most influential and powerful...

KYIV-OSTROH-KYIV - Six years ago, Academician Mykola Zhulynsky, chairman of the supervisory board of Ostroh Academy National University, invited Larysa Ivshyna, editor of The Day , to come to...

June 24 1934: Ukraine's highest state and party institutions are transferred from Kharkiv to Kyiv, the new capital city. 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares that the US government is...

The International Women’s Club of Kyiv (IWCK) recently ended its annual competition to award grants to local charities. This year the grants went to more than 20 organizations, including Sun Shine,...

Last Thursday the launch of a new collection of poems by the well-known Ukrainian writer and poetess Natalia Dziubenko-Mace took place at the House of Writers. Her new book, The Day of the Cold Sun...

My parents used to subscribe to several literary and semi-popular journals, such as Dzvin, Dnipro, Pamiatky Ukrainy, the UNESCO Courier, Vitchyzna , and Nauka i suspilstvo . Although they had...

There were dozens of bodyguards on the campus of Ostroh Academy National University and special security arrangements. This is nothing new. After all, this university has played host to many high-...

A Romanian version of Stanislav Kulchytsky’s book Why Did He Destroy Us? , one of the books from The Day s Library Series, will soon come off the presses. The translation was requested by the...

Last week the organizers of the national literary and artistic competition themed “I say NO to drugs!” handed out awards to the winners. Children and teens from every corner of Ukraine had sent their...

The Kobzars’ Pentecost Festival recently ended at the Ivan Honchar Museum, part of the Ukrainian Center for Folk Culture in Kyiv. The program included master classes on making banduras, kobzas, and...

One can only sympathize with Ukrainian readers or TV viewers: information about Belarus, our closest neighbor, is so contradictory that even interested individuals find it difficult to distinguish...