№31, (2003)

October 21: 1897. The Mykolayiv shipbuilding dockyard was opened. 1989. The Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society was founded in Lviv. October 22: 1918. The Kamyanets Ukrainian State...

It is always a pleasure to receive responses from readers. It is a double pleasure when the response is critical, because that means the reader is thinking for himself, and we have an opportunity for...

Prior to visiting the Ostroh Academy to attend the presentation of The Day Library Series book Dvi Rusi the Friday before last, I honestly knew next to nothing about that oldest university of Eastern...

When the twentieth century came to an end, curious mankind started to sum it up. This is what always happens when round figures show up on the historical calendar. Let us also ponder over the quite...

Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov has confirmed that on October 30 he will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Kostiantyn Hryshchenko, in Kyiv to discuss differences over the construction of a Russian dam...

The Day’s photojournalist Mykola Lazarenko received two awards at once at the InterFoto International Photo Exhibition in Moscow. His work titled At the Meeting of Vladimir Putin and Leonid Kuchma...

Deputies of the Kerch City Council have appealed to the presidents of Ukraine and Russia to address the situation caused by the construction of the Russian dam in the Kerch Strait and prevent this...

I would like to voice my gratitude to Prof. James Mace through your newspaper, as his articles on the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine have attracted public attention with their serious and unbiased...

As the Russians continue to build a dike in what they call the “common” Strait of Kerch for the second week, this raises still more unanswered questions. To find the answers, a group of ten Verkhovna...

European history at the turn of the twenty-first century teems with curious amusing incidents. A decade ago, no one could have dreamed of a true monarch coming to power in Bulgaria. The restoration...

On October 14 President Kuchma completed his official four-day visit to the Libyan Jamahiriya. As Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi put it, his country is ready to cooperate with Ukraine, for...

On October 19, the Ukraine National Palace in Kyiv hosted a single concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra and Choir (St. Petersburg) directed by Maestro Valery Gergiyev flying in from New York...

October 17 marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Forces operating in the global market (which is just gaining momentum) refer to the periphery of peoples and countries failing...

A noted artist almost always cuts an enigmatic figure in the public eye. People wonder about his talent, special vision of the world, and an ability to not only observe, but also look into the...

Lord George Robertson’s farewell visit to Ukraine in the capacity of NATO Secretary General is a certain sign of the end of the era when the parties were only examining each other’s potential and...