№27, (2003)

September 16 marked the beginning of the Annual Advertising Exhibition in Kyiv. Compared to last year, this year’s exhibition is on a greater scale, with 26% more area occupied. The number of...

A petty fine marked the end of a much-publicized affair involving three German nationals who flew to Ukraine in a private plane and were detained at the Dnipropetrovsk airport for violating...

The Day should be congratulated on having expanded the scope of interesting materials on its pages, specially considering that these features have a definite social importance. This expanded scope is...

PICKETERS’ DWELLINGS IN SIMEYIZ The article “The Battle of Simeyiz” (The Day, No. 25, September 9) was about the land situation in Yalta and resumed squatting practices on the southern Crimean...

One of the noticeable changes in Ukraine in the past couple of years has been the emergence of a significant number of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. Significant number sounds rather abstract,...

The window creaks, and her heart skips a beat. Could it be her son rapping on it? Seeing the mailwoman in the street, she catches her breath. Maybe she has a letter from him. The woman, seeing her,...

Ukraine’s economy seems to have quickly recovered from its July shock. According to the State Statistics Committee, August saw the GDP grow by 5.9%. Speaking in an interview with the “Ukrainian News...

Almost a month ago the Smoloskyp (Torch) publishing house (Kyiv-Philadelphia) turned out the first volume, long-awaited in not only scholarly circles, of the complete works by Vyacheslav Lypynsky, a...

On September 11-14 the Palace of Art in Lviv hosted its traditional publishers’ forum, marking the most important even in the Ukrainian book- publishing domain. This year the jubilee marked its tenth...

I happened the other day to come across a small book, Taras Shevchenko and His Religious and Political Views published recently by Krutitskoye Podvorye (Russian Orthodox Church, residency of the...

On September 6 the Ukrayina Exposition Center was awash in beer suds. The consumers obviously did not mind the cold, unlike the brewers, who traditionally resort to active advertising in the fall to...

The anniversary season started in a festive atmosphere with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony performed by the Philharmonic’s Symphonic Orchestra, Dumka Choir, and foreign soloists. The first such large-...

Apart from the key benevolent mission — with some of the proceeds of the sales of canvases being used to assist Ukrainian orphans and Chornobyl victims — the charitable auction also turned into a...

It all started last year, during the Days of French Culture in Rivne oblast, organized by the French Embassy and the French Alliance (director Nadiya Chumak), starring the French virtuoso guitarist...

In keeping with tradition, the company staged Mykola Lysenko’s epic Taras Bulba, starring soloists Valentyn Pivovarov (Taras), Liudmyla Yurchenko (Nastia), Petro Prymak (Ostap), Pavlo Prymak (Andriy...