№30, (2010)
03.06.2010 - 00:00
The empty Carpathian port
PIZZA“It was 11 years ago that I visited Uzhhorod for the first time, I went there on a school excursion. I had little money, but we went to a pizzeria. It was the first time when I invited a girl...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Jan FABRE: Provocation is the evolution of consciousness
Jan Fabre, a Belgian artist, set designer, theater director and dramaturgist, a descendant of the outstanding French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre, was born in Antwerp in 1958. The city of Rubens and...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Talking to Shakespeare
Usually the “reading field” that is formed by each person around himself forms the person. It would be logical to assume that due to a specific choice in literature and by talking to Shakespeare and...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Legendary albums
Ukrainian discography counts albums that have become a sort of artifact, a “litmus paper” of their times. It was in the late 1980s that the rock stage began to acquire popularity,...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Guerrilla-style television
Two weeks ago the Kyiv-based foundation Modern Art Center hosted the launching of Belsat TV, the first and only independent television channel in Belarus. Belsat’s information editor Aleksei...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
“Kharkiv agreements”: in search of logic
The speed at which the new Ukrainian leadership is making a U-turn in its foreign policy course, dropping the goal of joining NATO, has caused alarm among many in Ukraine and in the West. Meanwhile...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Chekhov’s elegy by Tuminas
It is a very intelligent, subtle, nervous, and sensuous performance — clear, humane, yet original and personal. By the way, everything invented by the theater’s artistic director Rimas Tuminas has...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Vitali Klitschko wins again
Ukraine is once again happy to greet Vitali Klitschko with a victory. On May 29 the WBC heavyweight champion defended his title defeating the Polish Albert Sosnowski by TKO in the tenth round at the...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Just the beginning!
LVIV-KYIV — Before the first meets, the coach of the Ukrainian national soccer team Myron Markevych could choose between experimenting, bringing together an entirely new team with an eye on 2012, or...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Over 15,000 books for children collected in Lviv
LVIV — Over 15,000 books for orphans, boarding schools and children from low-income families in Lviv and Lviv oblast were gathered in the course of the charitable project “Give a Child...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Den-2009 photo exhibit in Kharkiv
KHARKIV — Some two thousand visitors in two weeks, more than 300 votes, and unforgettable impressions — such is the result of the photo exhibit Den-2009 displayed at the library of the...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
Dancing and singing brings 156,000 hryvnias
As earlier reported by The Day, the Hryhorii Veriovka Choir invited the residents and guests of Lviv to the concert “For Special Children with Love.” This concert took place at the Lviv Opera, with...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
This day in history
1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys, led by Colonel Fedir Veshniak of Chyhyryn, arrive in Moscow to propose joint combat operations against the Rzezcpospolita. 1869: The Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railroad...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
“A choice between Bandera and Stalin?”
Warsaw – Kyiv: Adam Michnik, a renowned Polish public figure, political dissident, one of the most active representatives of the political opposition of 1968-89, editor in chief of Gazeta...
03.06.2010 - 00:00
The right to freedom
On May 31, an action supporting freedom of assembly in Russia took place under the walls of the Russian Federation’s embassy. Carrying banners and posters with the words “For our and...