№28, (2008)

Ukrainians often compare soccer to theater, and call soccer games “shows.” If one continues the analogy, a good soccer game, like a good theatrical performance, must attract a lot of spectators,...

Sept. 23 1919: A joint session of the Directory and the governments of the Ukrainian National Republic and the Western Ukrainian National Republic resolves to commence immediate hostilities against...

Ukraine owns one of the world’s most powerful gas transportation systems (HTS). The economic and political revenues from its pipelines, which transport a considerable part of all the oil and gas...

Recently, the streets of Kyiv and other big cities displayed billboards depicting the “Cede right of way” road sign with its telltale red-rimmed triangle and the image of a black hand inside. The...

The Ya Gallery has launched its new season with an exhibit of works by the noted Ukrainian sculptor Oleksandr Sukholit. The show is entitled “Clay — the Archaeology of Contemporary Sculpture.“...

The great party of the indifferent has nearly 45 million members out of a total population of 47 million. It is comprised of a huge mass of citizens who live outside politics, do not anticipate...

Founded in 2001, The Day‘s Library Series has now grown to eight books. The last one, Dzheims Meis: “Vashi mertvi vybraly mene...” (James Mace: “Your Dead Chose Me”) was launched at the Lviv...

There are probably few adults who do not have fond memories of their childhood, the home in which they grew up, and the schools they attended. Kyiv-Pechersk Gymnasium No. 84, located at 34 Moskovska...

(Conclusion. For Part One, see previous issue, No. 27)Petro Nesterov was already convinced, much more so than many other pilots in Russia, of the enormous technological potential of airplanes. While...

Yalta’s elderly residents and its many visitors remember the decrepit state of the Yalta Theater, which for many years was a terrible eyesore in this Crimean resort city. Despite its former days of...

Schools in Ukraine have already begun teaching a subject that focuses on civil society. This is beneficial and necessary, although it would be wrong to say that a civil society in the generally-...

Nobody cares anymore about the construction boom around the capital of Ukraine, with the exception, perhaps, of botanists and environmentalists, who sound the alarm every time construction equipment...

The name of the Suziria Theater (Suziria means “constellation” in Ukrainian) speaks for itself. It is a virtual constellation of actors, stage directors, and playwrights. Like a living organism,...

The Kashtanovyi dim (Chestnut House) Poetry Festival will be held in Kyiv on Sept. 28-28 (sponsored by the ISD Corporation). The program of the upcoming Kashtanovyi dim Poetry Festival includes...

Few people are aware that Ukrainians should have marked the feast of St. Simeon the Stylite the other day. Our forefathers considered this feast the beginning of the New Year, both in religious...