№25, (2010)

In Ukraine many people know that the small but wealthy Persian Gulf country of Kuwait is a real “nurse state.” Right after birth a decent sum of money with several zeros is transferred to a citizen’s...

Kyiv recently hosted an unusual, high-profile Retro and Exotic Moto Show which combined clas­sical retro-classics and modern exclusive supercars from the best world manufacturers. “These cate­gories...

The Les Valseuses (aka Going Places) star-to-be was born on Feb. 22, 1950, in Paris, daughter to a greengrocer mother and an unknown father. As a teenager, Sylvette made a living as a weaver and...

In the highly read and penetrating, yet sadly underappreciated, lecture “Humanitarian Aura of the Nation or the Defect of the Core Mirror,” brilliant Lina Kostenko highlighted the distorted image...

The National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine hosted the launch of the uni­que 10-volume publication Ukraina. Antolohia pamiatok derzhavo­tvorennia X-XX stolittia (Ukraine. Anthology of State...

The unique attempt to unite the worlds of East and West is represented by the exhibit “Okimono: 100 Years of European Triumph” in the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Arts from Oleksandr...

At long last there is opposition in the Ukrainian parliament. At a rally near the Verkhovna Rada on Saturday we saw the Tymoshenko we had become used to. The lady had got over her fiasco and ready...

Two weeks ago the famous economist, member of the Club of Rome, foreign member of the National Academy of Sci­ences of Ukraine and International Aca­demy of Management Bohdan Havry­lyshyn...

Experts assure they don’t see any significant reasons for Russia’s concession other than the wish for more strategic preferences. Valerii Borovyk, head of board of the Alliance “New Energy of Ukraine...

The UN announced the start of an All-Ukrainian photography contest From April 15 to August 1 the State Service for Protected Areas and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine will conduct the...

On April 26, the famous Ukrainian band Haidamaky will perform in the Volkshaus (Zurich) to mark the 24th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. The musicians have told The Day that with this...

Last summer the Amway Company organized a trip for Ukrainian journalists to its hometown, Grand Rapids (Michigan, USA). It is their native town not only because the dynasty of the company’s...

Lviv – A large-scale conference gathered experts in national security and international relations from 20 countries, including those of the European Union, Russia and other CIS nations, the USA,...

The political doctrine made Henri Barbusse the best French author and Lu Xun the best Chinese one for the Soviet public. In 2010, this doctrine did not make the 150th anniversary of the great Russian...

1113: Volodymyr Monomakh ascends to the Kyiv throne. 1906: The first issue of the Russian-language Ukrainian political journal Ukrainsky vestnik comes off the presses in St. Petersburg. 1919: The...