№34, (2008)
04.11.2008 - 00:00
This week in history
Nov. 4 1959: The diorama “The Storming of Sapun Mount” is launched in Sevastopil. 1990: Holodomor Remembrance Day is marked throughout Ukraine for the first time. Nov. 5 1920: Officials of the UNR...
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Our MPs can, when it comes down to the crunch
The IMF pulled off a virtually impossible trick by reconciling the president of Ukraine and the prime minister-at least for a while. During the first half of Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008, Ukrainian...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
Glamor default
The celebrated social psychologist Erich Fromm said that people are divided into those who want to have things and those who want to be. Societies and individual communities all over the world can be...
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Volodymyr STRETOVYCH: “This week a roll-call coalition will appear”
Last weekend an event passed virtually unnoticed in Kyiv. But people should have sat up and taken notice. Concluding their joint conference in Kyiv, the Eastern European Christian Democrats formed a...
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Suvorov or Bandera
The reason is likely not only in the fact that the street’s name was changed to that of Stepan Bandera, the leader of the OUN and a controversial figure for Lutskers, even though Lutsk is the central...
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Do you work in any genres of contemporary art?
The PinchukArtCenter has announced the establishment of the first nationwide, privately-funded prizes for contemporary art. The gallery’s goal is to support young artists. The best Ukrainian artists...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
Ostroh Academy Students present a unique gift to their alma mater
Two hundred students of National University of Ostroh Academy, wearing black robes and holding up letters in each of their hands, lined up on the university court grandstands. This was part of an...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
A green Euro-2012
Until 2012 Ukraine and Poland’s preparations for Euro-2012 will be a hot topic in the media. A civic Web site is even counting down the hours, minutes, and seconds. According to its data, 1,362 days...
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Is everything that is contemporary really topical?
New art always shocks, alarms, and goes beyond the limits, only to become routine and once again spark the need to rebel. This fate befalls almost all artistic trends and their creators. In this...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
“Equal rights for all”
The international investment summit and the concurrent Ukraine-Poland Economic Forum was a big event for the Donbas. The coal miners’ region has never hosted events on this scale before. The...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
Beware of cars
In course of several years over ten members of a criminal ring stole the most expensive foreign-produced cars, restamped the numbers of joints and units, and then forged documents in the name of new...
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The roots of distortion
The Day’s journalists were intrigued by the recent visit of the Swedish royal couple and the launch of the exhibit “Ukraine-Sweden: At the Crossroads of History” at the National Museum of...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
The hryvnia and its enemies
The greater the number of politicians determined to rescue Ukraine, the lower the hryvnia’s exchange rate. On Oct. 27, Petro Symonenko, the leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine, added his bill to...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
For the right to live
On Oct. 28, 1944, 64 years ago, the last piece of Ukrainian land in Transcarpathia was cleared of Nazi invaders. Of course, even today and for many future generations ahead this day remains and will...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
The story of a photograph
VILLAGE OF LANCHYN (IVANO-FRANKIVSK OBLAST) — A photograph entitled Three Children Killed in the Flood, which was submitted to The Day’s 10th photo competition held at Ukraine House in late September...