№30, (2005)

“Wols: Photographs, Watercolors, Prints” is the title of a new exhibit at Kyiv’s Russian Art Museum, which features the works of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (1913-1951), the official photographer of...

Taras Bulba has finally come out in the same version as the one in Gogol’s collection Myrhorod (1838). Kalvariya Publishers offer readers the original text of this famous novella in its “Individual”...

Despite the fact that Euroskepticism is growing, especially since the French and Dutch parliaments torpedoed the European constitution and the opponents of EU expansion gained some advantage — little...

“They beat me for a long time. First, they hit me on the head with their fists, then with their regulation pistols, then with a plastic bottle filled with water; when I fell, Ukraine. Time for Action...

(Conclusion. For part 1, see The Day, No. 29) “I am sure you will find new materials on Shevchenko,” Mr. Derehus said. “God willing, there may be an unknown portrait of the poet in some...

Last Monday the members of Lviv’s auto fan club ZAZ-Kozak celebrated the 45th anniversary of the first Ukrainian car, the ZAZ-965. The festivities were attended by guests from various Ukrainian...

October 4, 1890. The Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party, the first Ukrainian political party, was founded in Lviv. 1996. The South Ukrainian Economic Union was created in the Crimea. October 5, 1933....

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine, Jacek Kluczkowski, has been in Ukraine for just a few weeks, but he has already met Ukraine’s key politicians...

Last week we celebrated International Tourism Day, which bureaucrats always welcome with exceptional enthusiasm. By 2010 Kyiv will be receiving ten times more tourists, while the number of Ukrainians...

The rift in Ukraine’s Orthodox community remains a topical and painful social problem. In fact, the problem lies not so much in this schism as the fact that a considerable number of Ukrainians...

Providing Ukrainian youth with a patriotic sports upbringing is a very acute and high-priority problem. The sad fact is that the state has shifted almost the entire responsibility to grade schools,...

Valeriy LYTVYTSKY, head of a group of advisers to the National Bank governor: “I welcome the reappointment of Viktor Pynzenyk as minister of finance. His work was full of initiatives that had a...

One day a female friend, who was adding photos to her children’s album, stumbled on a page where she had to update her family tree. She later confessed that the blank page spurred her into thinking...

Popularizing Ukrainian studies in Italy is Professor Oxana Pachlowska’s field of endeavor. An outstanding scholar, Pachlowska chairs the Ukrainian Language and Literature Department at Rome’s La...

For the first time in the political history of Ukraine a march called Anticapitalism 2005 took place in Kyiv. My notes on this event will rely on the dialectic principle: thesis-antithesis-synthesis...