№24, (2009)

(Continued from the previous issue) BETWEEN TWO DESPOTS The main reason behind the rebellion in Ukraine and confrontation between the two peoples appears to be not so much the political,...

Although this country’s industry is in the doldrums, scientists have concluded that Ukraine is making a considerable contribution to climate change and, accordingly, global warming. Experts claim...

Sept. 15 1991: An all-Ukrainian rally is held on St. Sophia Square in Kyiv in support of the Declaration of Ukraine’s state independence. 1995: Ukraine signs the Convention on Laundering, Search,...

For us Rus’ is a historical predecessor of contemporary Ukraine. However, today the modified meaning of this word increasingly often catches the ear of Ukrainians. One day you read about “Donbas Rus...

These days Ukraine marks the 20th anniversary of the People’s Movement of Ukraine (Narodnyi Rukh Ukrainy, NRU). On Sept. 8-10, 1989, the NRU Constituent Assembly was held in Kyiv, where the First NRU...

President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczy ski took part in the ceremony of unveiling a monument in Warsaw to commemorate victims of the 1932–1933 Holodomor. The two...

I am like a stork that slowly walks in a vast field, bending to peck, picking whimsical word patterns embellished with the flowers of songs, proverbs, folk sayings, puns, anecdotes, and miniature...

(Conclusion. For the beginning, see previous issue) The Nachtigall Battalion spent one week in Lviv providing security for the bases for which they were responsible. Some soldiers also participated...

This is the fourth time that scientists have taken up examining Prince Yaroslav the Wise’s sepulcher, which is stored in the Saint Sophia Cathedral. Previously, it was opened for scientific research...

New times put forward new challenges for educators. Teachers say that children come to school with the moulded sense of their own dignity, they are often overly emotional and sensitive and burst...

Sara BLOOMFIELD, director of one of the world’s best known museums — the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington — has recently visited Ukraine. Since the museum’s opening in 1993 it...

Extract 150 is the ninth book in The Day’s Library Series, another supplement to the Ukrainian passport, to quote The Day’s editor in chief Larysa Ivshyna. The reading and thinking Ukraine has amply...

Virtually all media on the post-Soviet territory recently reminded their readers that 60 years ago the Soviet Union activated its first nuclear weapon, an A-bomb, on the trial ground at Semipalatinsk...

The Kyiv Museum of the Hetmanship launched a new project that combines two distinct genres of fine arts, painting and weaving. Displayed are the works of two artists — Lesia Dovzhenko and Halyna...

Article One The world will soon mark the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II, the most tragic event in human history and one that radically changed the worldwide geopolitical situation...