№3, (2006)

The Pylypenko exhibit features thematically linked bronze sculptures and laser photo montages. The theme is philosophical reflections on the cosmic significance of human beings, a combination of form...

Whenever you fill up your European compact car’s gas tank, or that of your American SUV, you pay as much as a Russian schoolteacher earns in a month. And every time you pay, you subsidize a regime...

Ukrainians know more or less the tragic history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholics, who for centuries championed the right to profess their faith and, by that very act, their national identity and...

Kyiv’s Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Art Museum is hosting an exhibit entitled Adam Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets as part of the cultural program “Year of Poland in Ukraine.” The organizers say that...

Ukraine’s European Choice is the name of a special creative course designed for students in grades 10 and 11. This year the course is being completed by the third generation of Kyiv students. The...

The Day has recounted in detail how this opera came to be. It is staged by an energetic team consisting of the young stage director, Anatoliy Solovianenko, in collaboration with such distinguished...

The end of last week may turn out to be truly momentous for our country, as its final days were marked by two interconnected and equally contradictory events. On Thursday Ukraine learned about its...

For the last three years the Russian embassy has held traditional music soirees. These concerts were initiated by Russian Ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin and are dedicated to prominent creative...

During Gerard Depardieu’s two-day visit to Kyiv the distinguished French actor met with President Yushchenko at his home in the village of Bezradychi in Kyiv oblast. The actor was presented with a...

Last weekend the Zoodim pet supermarket located on the Osokorky housing estate in Kyiv held its latest action called “Find Yourself a Friend.” Almost every weekend the organizers, volunteers of the...

Where can a village schoolteacher obtain information for a thematic lesson commemorating James Mace? The administration of an elementary school in Vinnytsia oblast recently asked our editors this...

Bruce Jackson, president of the non-governmental organization Project on Transitional Democracies, is well-known in expert circles, and numerous politicians keep the doors of their offices open to...

Where’s Zalizniak, that soul sincere?Where does he rest at last? The times are foul! The hangman reigns, And none recalls the past. (Taras Shevchenko, “The Haidamaks”) The national-liberation...

The following letter arrived at the office of Larysa Ivshyna. Dear Larysa, I am writing to you from Kuwait. My name is Vsevolod Palahin, a Ukrainian government official on temporary assignment abroad...

The Penguin-MS is the name of a unique velo-ark invented by Leonid Mykula, a celebrated adventurer from Kharkiv, who plans to travel on his invention to the South Pole this year. Mykula, 63, is...