№31, (2009)

Lviv — Resounding speeches full of big promises delivered by Ukraine’s presidential candidates and crowded party events organized in the capital seem to have little impact on average Lvivites. I have...

A Ukrainian gift shop recently opened in Kyiv. Here you can buy a gift or another beautiful thing, and all merchandise originates from Ukraine. This shop, it turns out, is one of few in the capital...

To say that situation with the spread of viral infections and the increasing number of viral pneumonia victims in western (so far) regions of Ukraine are alarming is to say nothing. Ukrainian...

Nov. 3 1943: The 1st Ukrainian Front launches an offensive to liberate Kyiv from the Germans, creating a strategic bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnipro River. Nov. 4 1959: The diorama “The...

The number of people who have signed the petition on our site (www.day.kiev.ua) to support Donetsk students’ initiative to name Donetsk National University after Vasyl Stus has been steady growing...

KYIV–KANIV–KYIV — A memorial plaque dedicated to the noted translator Yevhen POPOVYCH was unveiled in Kaniv. What do most Ukrainians know about him? Very little, if anything at all. This is not...

The Ukrainian graphic artist Serhii Yakutovych has spent five years on the project “Gogol is Born” in commemoration of the 200th jubilee of the author of Dead Souls. The exposition consists of more...

I arrived in Kyiv on November 2 to pay an official visit which I think is very important for a number of reasons. In the past few years, Ukraine has undergone serious transformations in all fields,...

The Law “On Languages in the Ukrainian SSR” was enacted 20 years ago, on October 28, 1989, long before the proclamation of Ukrainian national independence. Nevertheless, it marked a breakthrough of...

Ukraine admitted to ECOSOCUkraine, the US, and 20 more countries were admitted to the UN Economic and Social Council by secret ballot during a plenary meeting of the ECOSOC General Assembly. ECOSOC...

Arab countries can become strategic investors in Ukraine. The groundwork for this kind of cooperation was recently started. Last May Kuwait hosted the first Ukrainian–Arab conference on the...

Relations between Ukraine and Israel have been developing in a more complicated, but less dynamic way than those between Jerusalem and Moscow. Last year Israel implemented visa waiver program with...

This year marks the noted choir’s 198th season. The Kuban Cossack Choir has toured Ukraine a number of times, and each concert was a dazzling discovery for the audiences. It boasts an extensive and...

On Oct. 24, 2009, when all the key political players, except for Viktor Yushchenko, had already been nominated for presidency, and when the media bubbled with the candidates’ bragging about making...

Historical reference: During the occupation, the Nazis eliminated over 4 million civilians and almost 1.3 million prisoners of war. In the years of World War II, Ukraine lost about 10 million...