№24, (2002)

On July 16 a Kyiv district court was to begin the first hearing of the suit filed by relatives of the dead crew of the Tu-154 jet downed by Ukrainian Air Defense over the Black Sea. However, the...

[Continued from previous issues] ON THE CHARM OF THE FRENCH FEMMES AND VERSAILLES FOUNTAINS Suppose we digress a bit from the tourist account. The male (and partially female) part of my Kyiv...

Kyrylo Protsenko presented his project of an academic version of living quarters decoration at Kyiv’s RA Gallery. However, mere academic interest in this artist’s work is practically impossible....

The history of the Ukrainian language is filled with dramatic moments: more than once was it officially banned, called into question, and hypocritically squeezed out of various spheres of use by...

Scotsman David Coulthard arrived in Kyiv, following former teammate Mika Hakkinen, to attend the ceremony of opening the fan club West McLaren Mercedes and plant a tree (previously carefully dug up...

A local art gallery hosted a display marking the 110th anniversary of the birth of Bruno Schultz, the great Jewish Polish artist and writer. He wrote in Polish and lived in Drohobych, Halychyna....

I have known Petro Holitsyn, a fellow with Uzhhorod University, since 1989. He was the first in the Soviet Union to raise playing cards to the official level. Can you imagine? He was the first...

We live at a time when history is being rewritten and edited, when views on the past and its interpretations change. I mean not only the history of Ukraine or the late Soviet Union. The Day recently...

Kyiv Patriarchate (KP) is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) operating independently of Moscow. KP is an significant part of Ukrainian society, a reality that cannot be ignored even by its opponents...

Roman Oliynyk-Rakhmanny, 84, born in what is now Lviv oblast, passed away late last month in Montreal, after a long illness. He ranked among the celebrated journalists of the Ukrainian diaspora, was...

“Neither the current state, nor the rate or the trends of development of small business can be regarded as satisfactory,” “this country has created a powerful bureaucratic mechanism to counteract...

With a cup of strong French roast coffee before him on the table and a Marlboro between his fingers, he shoots a penetrating, if somewhat quizzical, glance at his interlocutor. He speaks excellent...

OUR POLITICIANS AND PARTY LEADERS STILL THINK PEOPLE LOVE THEM Mr. Lytvyn, the prediction you gave The Day (that the main objective of these elections – to improve the structure and increase the...

Recently Ukraine witnessed a peak of diplomatic activity connected with its efforts to catch the train which, incidentally, is already moving. In fact, for the immediate future these events (the...

Roland Smith, ambassador of Great Britain in Ukraine, is certain the European Union will find ways to bring about a “true rapprochement” with Kyiv. He recalled that Britain had suggested that Ukraine...