№27, (2009)

The Japanese Embassy in Ukraine has organized ikebana masterclasses in Kyiv for the past 15 years. This event usually takes place in autumn, and every time a different “professor,” as the Japanese...

Kyiv will soon become the honey capital of the world. At the 41st International Congress of the World Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations APIMONDIA, which took place on Sept. 15–20, 2009, in...

Ukraine was forced to sustain the burden of an autocratic regime, which greatly differed from its spirit and traditions, and at the same time received a paradoxical mission from history: to...

Simferopol hosts worldwide forum of Turkic philologists SIMFEROPOL — On Sept. 28, 2009, the Fourth National Congress of Turkic Philologists finished its work at the Crimean Engineering Pedagogical...

The Dnipropetrovsk Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a shocking case: a huge bread dump was discovered on the side of the road leading to Kryvy Rih. Thousands of loaves of bread heaped together...

The relationship between Ukraine and the EU may be accurately and succinctly described in one phrase: they both agree the other is important, but they don’t understand or trust one another. The story...

On Sept. 24–27, 2009, Yalta hosted to the sixth Yalta European Strategy (YES) summit. The key topic on the agenda was “Ukraine and the World after the Crisis.” This traditional nongovernmental forum...

The Day has asked experts the following question: What is the likelihood that democratic forces in Ukraine will unite on the eve of the presidential elections? Are they going to resort to such...

Oct. 6 2001: Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland open the European Collegium of Ukrainian and Polish Universities in Lublin. Oct. 7 1992: Ukraine’s Ministry of...

The Embassy of France and the French Cultural Center recently launched Flowers of Romance, an exhibit of Andr? Jolivet’s paintings, at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The exhibit will remain open...

Russia is getting increasingly involved in a debate on 19th-century history. Whereas previously it was an effort to combat what Moscow was fond of describing as “falsifications of joint history” in...

US President Barack Obama has recently appointed John Teft US ambassador to Ukraine. This career diplomat has a vast experience working in the post-Soviet countries. In 1996-99 he was the first...

As many as 1,112 ballots with the names of the best photographers were cast by the guests to The Day’s 2009 photo exhibit held at the Ukrainian Home, September 25 – October 2. After counting...

A historical event has recently taken place in Japan. For the first time in more than 50 years the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has suffered a defeat. And the opposition Democratic Party has come...

Paradoxically, Odesa Port-Side Plant (OPSP) remains state property, according to the results of the sale competition in Ukraine’s State Property Fund (USPF). The OPSP is the monopolist on the state...