№30, (2003)

The history of Ukrainian studies in the West is inseparably linked with the name of George G. (Yury Yuliyanovych) Grabowicz, first and so far only Dmytro Chyzhevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at...

Viktor Medvediev, one of Kyiv’s most prolific creative personalities, thought up a very long and pretentious name for his new personal exhibition — From the Life of a Swallowtail, or How I Spent My...

Last week brought the results of the viewers’ award nomination of the Fifth International Photo Contest of The Day. Often the opinions of ordinary viewers are no less important than expert...

Last issue we began the fascinating round table we hosted with Deputy Director of the National Institute of Strategic Studies Director Oleksandr LYTVENENKO, East West Institute Director Serhiy...

Prime Minister of Ukraine and Party of the Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych announced that his candidacy is now being discussed, among other things, as a single contender from the centrist political...

They say that flowers bloom best in the homes of people with positive energy and in households where peace and harmony reign. Since ancient times floral and plant motifs have been an indispensable...

October 14. Day of the Ukrainian Cossacks. 1919. The Ukrainian Directory, government, and army swore allegiance to the UNR in Kamyanets-Podilsky. 1942. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was...

The Pechersk Theater of Pantomime has opened a new season. Although Othello has been on the theater’s repertoire before, the current version is so unusual and different from the earlier one that it...

Today a Ukrainian delegation is flying to Poland to continue to implement the EAOTC declaration of support, signed by Ukraine, the EU, and Poland. Meanwhile, The Day’s experts believe that the...

The stated objective of social transformations in Ukraine is the creation of a civil society based on the principles of democracy and market economy reform. Now suppose we ask ourselves whether a...

Recently the mass media raised an uproar over the accreditation of Lilia Budzhurova, a correspondent with the STB television channel and Agence France-Presse, at the Ukraine-EU summit. As this author...

For 29 years Anhelyna Bukasova and husband have been raising their daughter Olesia, who was diagnosed as mentally retarded. Having worked for thirty years as a civil engineer, Anhelyna never let slip...

In 1455-1456, Mainz-based German craftsman Johann Guttenberg printed a Bible. In all probability, he could not fully fathom the greatness of his discovery. Book printing quickly gained wide currency...

Last month an agreement was signed in Yalta on Ukraine’s joining the Single Economic Space. This time Yalta hosted a two-day Ukraine-EU summit, which also cannot claim to either clarifying completely...

Ukraine’s Carpathians still observe two very old major holidays — seeing shepherds off to mountain pastures and seeing them and their herds in after the end of the grazing season. On such days,...