№26, (2010)

It is with great interest that we received a message from The Day’s editor in chief Larysa Ivshyna about the idea to plant the “Garden of the World Ukrainians.” With even more sympathy and approval...

People can be divided into those who create something and those who use the creations. And if it were not for the non-standard thinking of inventors, it is unknown at what stage of development we...

A quarter of all Ukrainian women consider flowers to be the best present. Even if they expressed this desire right before March 8, International Women’s Day, but still. Flowers are an absolutely...

On April 22, 2010, Ukraine ought to recall that it is the 140th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin who played a role in the Ukrainian people’s history, which we cannot pass by in...

The 3rd annual International Ar­chitecture Festival CANactions 2010 has opened in the Ukrainian capital. The event is masterminded by the Zotov...

KYIV–MOSCOW — Rossiyskaya gazeta (with which The Day has exchanged several articles) in its issue of March 26, 2010, carried two features meant primarily for Russian readers but which are of...

CHERKASY — This book was published in Cherkasy, at the cost of the local budget, in commemoration of the anniversary of Mykola Nehoda’s death. Of course, de mortuis nil nisi bonum — speak no ill of...

1918: The Small Rada adopts a draft Constitution of the UNR. A coup d'etat takes place in Ukraine, overthrowing the Central Rada and proclaiming Pavlo Skoropadsky Hetman of Ukraine.1918: Ships of the...

For most Ukrainians, as for other peoples in the region, Chornobyl is synonymous with the world’s most serious nuclear disaster, the subsequent cover-up by the communist regime, and thousands of...

Once laura was the name for the indigo paint extracted from a tropical leguminous plant. In ancient times, victors who won over their rivals in a battle were decorated with a laurel branch. And it...

I recently returned to Kyiv from Wa­shington, DC, where I had the pri­vilege of joining presidents Yanu­kovych and Obama in their first ever historic meeting at the Nu­clear...

In the end of 2005 Turkey began its entry negotiations with the EU. Since then it has achieved great progress on its way to European integration, and it has implemented many reforms. However,...

Music is capable of helping travel through centuries in search of the understanding of the epochs that were created by human civilizations. An epoch’s character is reflected in it as in the finest...

President Viktor Yanukovych’s address to the PACE session in Strasbourg was a blatant violation of the Law of Ukraine “On the Holodomor of 1932-33 in Ukraine,” ratified by the Verkhovna Rada on Nov....

EU energy-saving standards to be implemented in UkraineGTZ, a German state-run enterprise for technical cooperation, and the private German company TUV Rheinland Ukraine have announced that they are...