№30, (2011)
31.05.2011 - 00:00
Kyiv honors its UNR warriors
Last Saturday a monument to the Kyiv-born officers of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) Army was unveiled. It is a big white cross, an enlarged copy of the Symon Petliura Cross Order, as...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
The triumph of justice,
[Editor’s note: After having read Yevhen Marchuk’s article The truth will out, Inna Yeliashkevych, Oleskandr Yeliashkevych’s daughter, wrote to The Day explaining how she felt about...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
“A City in the Framework”
The exhibit “A City in the Framework” at the KalytaArtKlub has launched a new project dedicated to city landscapes and city culture.
Back during the Renaissance period European...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
Shevchenko and the Peresopnytsia Gospels
This August marks the 450th anniversary of the handwritten Peresopnytsia Gospels, a symbol of Ukraine and the book upon which every president of Ukraine takes the oath of office. There is a mystic...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
EVENT
“Energy willows” in Rivne region
This tree is the raw material for the production of alternative fuels that can compete with gas. The experience of using such “energy...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
Kyiv celebrated its birthday while searching for itself
A presentation of Kyiv’s Strategic Development Plan until 2025 will take place at the municipal administration’s office. In some ways it’s the beginning of the second big stage of...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
The Georgian confrontation
If you cannot make good on your promises its better to keep quiet. This lesson can be applied to Georgia. They promised to overthrow Saakashvili on May 25. They didn’t. They pro-mised to hold...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
This day in history
1876: Alexander II of Russia signs the Ems Ukase banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print, save for the reprinting of old documents, as well as the import of Ukrainian publications and...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
4 cases of cholera reported in Mariupol
On May 29 in Mariupol three local inhabitants, two men born in 1946 and 1956, and a woman born in 1921, fell ill with cholera.All of them were taken to the infectious diseases unit of the local...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
VV front man speaks about “Ukrainian baroque”
Oleh SKRYPKA, VV’s leader, is The Day’s frequent guest. He implements many interesting projects. This time we met to discuss his recent DJ performance at the ethno disco at the Venice...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
An “easy” entry
Last week all Ukrainian schools held traditional “last ring” ceremonies. However, 11th-graders are yet to undergo external independent evaluation. And only then will they have an...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
How are Ukrainians saving?
Ukrainians appear uninterested in long-term financial instruments, such as accumulative insurance, non-governmental pensions and investment funds, and products investing in precious metals. As before...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
Germany rejects nuclear energy
The German government has passed a decision to shut down all its nuclear power plants by 2022, according to Norbert Roettgen, the country’s Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
“Everything you look for is nearby”
Andre Tan, Olena Burenina, Artem Klymchuk, Ksenia Marchenko, Eduard Nasyrov, Olena Oliinyk, Galeb Al Maali… This is an incomplete list of names for which the All-Ukrainian Contest of Young...
31.05.2011 - 00:00
Netanyahu’s border war
TEL AVIV — Binyamin Netanyahu’s furious rejection of US President Barack Obama’s proposal to use the 1967 borders as the basis for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian...