№23, (2008)
22.07.2008 - 00:00
2,000-year-old toy found in western Ukraine
A 2,000-year-old children’s toy in the shape of a clay bird has been found by a group of student archaeologists from the Faculty of History at Lviv’s Ivan Franko National University, led by Roman...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
A few words about the mechanics of power
Continued from The Day, no. 22 County and gubernial leaders of the nobility were responsible for the election procedure, which could last up to 15 days. As a representative of the administrative...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
Budget’s “second wind”
Until a few days ago, Ukrainian parliamentarians were working in their districts. The summer break has now begun. But there is a risk that parliament’s summer vacations will be interrupted before...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
Merkel’s mission in Kyiv
Yesterday German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel came with her visit to Ukraine. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko expressed his hope that Merkel’s visit will help to strengthen Ukrainian-German...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
“A distinguished figure like James Mace only highlighted our slavish core”
On July 16 the Culture TV channel broadcast a program in its Dialogue series. The invited guests were The Day’s editor Larysa Ivshyna and the historian Volodymyr Boiko, who talked about James Mace,...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
Obama’s advantages
This is the first time that Robert “Bob” Shrum, the political consultant of US presidential candidate Barack Obama and a Senior Fellow at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
This week in history
July 22 1819: Ivan Kotliarevsky operetta Natalka Poltavka premieres in Ukraine.
2001: President Jiang Zemin of the People’s Republic of China pays an official visit to Ukraine. A number of bilateral...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
Genoese fortress in the Crimea heavily damaged by downpour
The damage to one of the towers of Cembalo, the Genoese fortress in the Crimean city of Balaklava, was caused by heavy rains that lasted throughout the night, said Dr. Nikolai Alekseenko of the...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
Serious Negotiations or Hot Confrontation with Iran?
BERLIN — For two weeks, it looked like the regime in Iran had finally gotten the message that, if it continues to pursue its nuclear program, serious military confrontation is likely to result....
22.07.2008 - 00:00
The struggle against corruption
The US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor declared in Odesa that the American government does not want to see corruption gnawing away at this country’s judicial system and undermining the rules of...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
Confirming the status
In the first game of the new soccer season, which traditionally is the Ukrainian Super Cup, the Shakhtar of Donetsk added that trophy to the Cup of Ukraine and the National Championship’s golden...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
Paying a visit to some Ukrainian Cossacks and witches in Sumy oblast
When someone asks you what Sumy oblast is famous for, the first thing that comes to mind is the Witch of Konotip, celebrated in the famous novel by Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko. For historians,...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
Coffee with sweet pepper
They say that discoveries and creative insights are found at the crossroads of science and art, science and literature, and literature and music — at the junction of things that outwardly cannot be...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
In the light of historical truth
The Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-33 is still an open wound in our national consciousness. Those years, which were the most terrible in all of Ukraine’s history, demand from each one of us not only...
22.07.2008 - 00:00
Ukrainian tourism industry lacks star system
The State Service of Tourism and Resorts of Ukraine and various civic organizations are launching a number of projects in Ukraine’s tourism industry. Some projects are aimed at attracting foreign...