№32, (2005)

Democracy tarnishes its heroes as surely as revolutions devour their children. For 25 years, the leaders of Solidarity personified the qualities needed to win Poland’s struggle for democracy:...

The current schism in Ukrainian Orthodoxy not only reflects the split in Ukrainian society. It is also fueling it by placing a powerful instrument of spiritual influence on our citizens in hands that...

This article concerns an interesting episode in the history of the Ukrainian national renaissance of the early 20th century. In 1913 a member of the 4th State Duma, Archbishop Nikon (the ethnic...

Calls for shaking hands will not reconcile soldiers of the Soviet Army and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, as evidenced by the events in downtown Kyiv last Saturday, marking the UPA’s 63rd anniversary...

One of the most interesting cultural events of the season has just ended. This year’s Kyiv Music Fest, a forum for modern academic music featuring the latest developments in Ukrainian and world music...

Roman Solchanyk is an American historian, analyst, and researcher from Santa Monica, California, whose parents hail from Halychyna. During his recent visit to Kyiv he visited The Day ’s editorial...

Larysa Skoryk is a prominent figure in Ukrainian politics. She is one of those who stood at the cradle of Ukrainian independence and defended democratic values in the first Ukrainian parliament. A...

Ukraine may well become swamped with sugar, if the current record amounts of this white gold are any indication. According to Mykola Yarchuk, the head of the Ukrtsukor National Sugar Producers...

Last Friday’s dismissal of Sviatoslav Piskun from his post as prosecutor general of Ukraine was not unexpected. Last week Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko, appearing on the 1 + 1 TV...

This year’s ballet festival expanded its outreach beyond Donetsk to Lviv and Kyiv, which also hosted gala concerts by international ballet stars. Over a period of nine days audiences watched...

On Oct. 13 the solemn inauguration of a memorial to Roman Shukhevych, commander in chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, took place on a steep bank of the river Zbruch, a kilometer from the village...

Ukrainian parliamentarians, members of the ad hoc commission investigating the allegedly illegal contribution made by Boris Berezovsky to President Yushchenko’s election campaign have reported on...

The games being played with stockholders’ registers have not only become part of the Nikopol Ferroalloy Works scandal, but also a key component of the conflict that has erupted around regional...

In our harsh, pragmatic time there are more people prepared to abandon their dogs than those who are willing to adopt them. The numbers of homeless animals on the streets of our cities confirm a...

Every truly outstanding artist highlights certain turning points of his nation’s historical destiny not by “photocopying” reality, but by painting a general picture and the broadest possible panorama...