№32, (2003)

October 28: 1920. The counteroffensive of the Southern Front troops began, taking Northern Tavriya from Wrangel. 1996. The Ministry for Emergency Situations was established. October 29: 1800...

This time my reporter’s luck held true. At eleven p.m. I was boarding the Kamyanets-Podilsky to Kyiv train when I overheard some passengers saying that a woman, a close relative of Ivan Ohiyenko, was...

If you pass by an increasing number of young and not so young mothers in the street, if you notice more cars racing past with just married signs, also if you notice fresh flowers laid at the foot of...

Those who have had at least a few of their features published know that it is always a pleasure when someone you hold in authority takes note of what you have written, appreciates and assesses it in...

Every age has its enemies. In the mid-twentieth century, Fascists were the evildoers. After WWII, Communists became civilization’s nemesis. Now terrorists have become the designated masters of...

The Revenko musical group first appeared onstage in October 2001. The ensemble was created on the initiative of Oleksiy Revenko, who previously played in the Povilny chai [Slow tea], Stary khram [Old...

Is it right that our state has no interest in smokers’ budgets? No doubt, everybody has a right to choose if one wants to shorten his life with nicotine and also which way to do this and for what...

Taras Shtonda, soloist with the National Opera of Ukraine, is at an age generally regarded as a bass’s creative prime. We his dedicated listeners have even more reason to feel proud about his...

As The Day has already reported, Kamyanets-Podilsky University celebrated its 85th anniversary on October 22. This national university, the first in independent Ukraine, was founded in the years of...

“What is your assessment of the current relations between Ukraine and Russia, including economic relations?” “No matter what they say, I have always thought that Ukraine is a top priority in...

NATO Secretary General George Robertson stayed in Ukraine for just one day (he arrived in Kyiv on Monday morning and left for Brussels in the evening). During his visit, he made many statements,...

This year’s Volodymyr Krainev Invites international festival was dedicated to Vladimir Horowitz’s birth centennial. Participating in concerts were young talents from Ukraine, Russia, and Japan, and...

Columbia University history professor hired by The New York Times to make an independent assessment of the coverage of one of its correspondents in the Soviet Union during the 1930’s said yesterday...

For the first time after an interval of twenty years Kyiv saw and heard the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra and Choir conducted by the legendary Maestro. The October 19 concert at the Ukraine Palace...

The US House of Representatives on October 20 adopted House Resolution 356 “Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the man-made famine that occurred in Ukraine in 1932-1933”...