№3, (2002)

The writer Aleksandr Kuprin, whose life and creative work were inseparably linked with Ukraine (the long story Olesia, the short stories Gambrinus, The Listrigons, Kyiv Types...), was very fond of...

In a month, former Premier Viktor Yushchenko is to have his next birthday. Strangely enough, this event, unimportant for Ukraine, has left its mark on the overly calm reaction of Ukraine to the two-...

After another victory on the foreign policy front, having laid out broad highways leading to all parts of the world, after yet another session of target practice without a single bull’s- eye, it is...

The goal of democracy is to involve young and middle-aged voters not given to nostalgia in the election, presidential aide and former Prime Minister of the Crimean Autonomous Republic Serhiy Kunitsyn...

“My father was a lawyer: in Soviet times, after graduating from Kyiv’s St. Volodymyr (now Shevchenko — Ed.) University, he worked as a defense attorney. So even as a child I knew what the job of a...

The very fact of raising the headlined question often baffles the naive foreigners who come to Ukraine. It is beyond their comprehension why it is next to impossible to hear the wonderful Ukrainian...

The hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church recently decided to move the diocese and other central bodies of the Church to Kyiv. The UGCC currently numbers over 5 million adherents in most...

The editors recently received a message from the Bankruptcy Agency, in which the bank’s press service “offered their apologies to the readers and Vitaly Strukov, acting chief executive director of...

I read with great interest Ms. Gudzyk’s article “In the Mirror of the Census” (The Day, December 25, 2001) about the recently-held census in Ukraine. Of particular interest to me were her...

While Soviet textbooks single out the period of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45), contemporary ones dealing with Ukrainian history refer to World War II (1939-45), the Soviet-German War (1941-45),...

Ukrainian radio stations broadcast Russian songs, musicians pay TV channels to play their renditions, annually 0.4 books are published in Ukraine per capita (compared to the desired 12); Ukrainian...

The signing ceremony of an agreement on a Japanese cultural grant as audio equipment and musical instruments for the Taras Shevchenko National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet took place in Kyiv...

On January 18 an artist friend of mine told me strictly off the record that the French Cultural Center (104 Gorky Street) will host an exhibit of two comic strip artists from Belgium, and that the...

If you think that the mushroom of a nuclear blast is still a symbol of death, suffering, and the ephemeral quality of human like, I am afraid it means that you are hazardously behind the times....

“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said...