№22, (2008)

The books published by The Day inspire one to reflect on Ukraine’s present and future, and on the crucial periods of our history. For the past six years the newspaper’s Library Series has been...

Kyiv has once again celebrated Ivan Kupalo Day. The eve of St. John the Baptist is one of the most popular of Ukraine’s pre-Christian feasts. A dramatized folklore extravaganza was staged in Kyiv’s...

Because of the excessive costs connected to holding elections, as well as the electorate’s bribability and its foolishness, which verges on indifference, today many Ukrainian citizens think that...

You could write a gripping book about the specialty publishing house Smoloskyp (The Torch). Established by Ukrainian students in France in the late 1950s and later transferred to the US in the...

Without a doubt, July 11 was the day of Yulia Tymoshenko’s triumph. She took a risk and won. The plan known as “Yulia until July” suffered a shattering defeat. That day the atmosphere in the...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (PA OSCE) proposed to acknowledge the fact of famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine in a resolution last week. The...

France took over the European Union’s presidency from Slovenia on July 1, 2008. For the next six months this country will be playing its own diplomatic cards in the EU game. France has now proposed a...

Another wave of immigration is taking place in the world, and Ukraine is close to it, if not smack in its very epicenter. The sociological firm Research and Branding says that Ukraine’s neighbor,...

July 15 1920: The Kyiv Higher Institute of Public Education is founded. Today it is known as Drahomanov National Pedagogical University. 1989: Miners in the Donbas and western Ukraine go on strike...

Doctors are convinced that it is possible to cure early-stage cancers. But they need state-of-the-art medical equipment, which is Ukraine’s number-one problem. Rinat Akhmetov’s charitable foundation...

Between 1987 and 1990 Dr. Igor Chubais was one of the most conspicuous figures in the Moscow-based “unofficial” associations Perestroika and Perestroika-88. He was the founding member of the CPSU’...

Most Ukrainians don’t have any of the products from the Opishnia school of pottery in their kitchens. This is no surprise. After the Soviet Union collapsed, pottery stopped being mass-produced and...

Last week a despicable incident, taken straight from the “finer” pages of the history of the Soviet era, took place in Kharkiv. A group of so-called communists smashed the plaque commemorating Josyf...

Ecological safety, the changing climate, and alternative energy sources are the world community’s top priorities. Among the questions that are high on the world’s agenda are the effectiveness of...

Applauding and cheering, a group of Ukrainian children between the ages of 7 and 15 formed a live corridor through which the wives of ambassadors accredited to Ukraine passed to stand in line to...