№23, (2008)

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....

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...

On a wonderful summer evening, a Spanish rose blossomed in the back courtyard of the Mikhail Bulgakov Museum in Kyiv. Guitars were playing, a woman was singing, and the castanets and heels of dancing...

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...

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...

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...

“I am thrilled that our athletes will not only look great in Beijing. They will also be comfortable,” declared Serhii Bubka, the head of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee, who greeted our Olympic...

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...

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...

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...

Until the second half of the 17th century Baturyn was a small provincial town in what is now Chernihiv oblast. But in the times of Ivan Mazepa and Ivan Samoilovych it was the seat of the Ukrainian...

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,...

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...

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...

The Day has repeatedly drawn attention to the problem of water pollution in Ukraine, specifically the kind of water that may be considered potable: tap water, artesian water, or bottled water....