№27, (2002)

Fashion is no less a component of culture than, say, literature or painting. Being stylish in Ukrainian way is not so easy in our days. We have too little trademarks entirely answering Ukrainians’...

According to news reports from Chechnya, Akhmad Zavgayev, head of the Nadterechny region administration, has been killed. In the past ten years this very region has been the most pro-Russian...

A total of 474 items covering about 500 bills have been placed on the agenda of the second session of Verkhovna Rada of the fourth convocation, Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn told the...

“THE FORMATION OF A MAJORITY SHOULD BY NO MEANS BE REGARDED AS THE BEGINNING OF A POLITICAL REFORM” “We thought it necessary to invite you, the first President of independent Ukraine and an...

The elephants moved slowly, negotiating a pass in Thailand, like tanks headed for the depot, almost out of fuel. They did not want to move any quicker. It was their habitual pace. They were free! The...

High on the Verkhovna Rada September 11 agenda was a long series of bills on the election of people’s deputies. Parliament members moved a total seven draft laws “On the Election of People’s Deputies...

Forms of empathy with history are among the most important aspects of conscious human existence. In fact, philosophy and human thought in general have always sought to determine man’s abode....

Indeed insuperable is the longing of the human soul for the beautiful, the consummate, and the elevated, which is why sometimes quite eccentric cultural projects are made possible. As the case may be...

Over the past four years the number of Ukrainian citizens who legally emigrated to the USA has almost doubled, reads a US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) report. In part, in the period...

If ordinary Ukrainians were asked what they could remember most vividly about all those reforms underway for the past decade, 99.9% would point to (a) price jumps, varying in frequency in different...

It looks as if strategic plans of the State Tourism Administration of Ukraine to turn domestic tourist industry into a powerful economy sector (recently The Day was told about this by a guest of the...

As the Budgetary Code requires, the government’s “grand plan” of the collection and distribution of revenues came into the hands of parliament on September 14. Before this important and, to some...

First of all, congratulations to the staff on the anniversary and thank you all for the important effort you are undertaking to popularize historical knowledge and history as a science. I think that...

The life of Vasyl Kapnist (1758- 1823) is perhaps the most convincing confirmation of the outstanding Ukrainian historian’s aforesaid words. Prominent Russian poet and playwright, a friend of Gavrila...

Year by year it seems the west is spreading further east. Some may lament the homogenization of cultures that globalization brings about but for those in the post-communist countries of Eastern...