№34, (2008)
04.11.2008 - 00:00
Gray, go away!
The Gryphon Gallery has launched “Longing for Colors,” the solo exhibition of works by the Kyiv artist Galina Chuprakova-Kazakova. This the first time that Ukrainian art lovers can view her paintings...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
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...
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
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...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
Fashion designers doing better job of creating positive image for Ukraine
Let’s start with some statistics. According to Ukrainian Fashion Week’s press center, this year 43 designers took part in the week-long fashion extravaganza, with nearly 180 accredited journalists,...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
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...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
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
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
Different ways of understanding democracy
Germany’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine, Dr. Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth, began his assignment in Ukraine in late summer of this year. Like many Ukrainians, he does not...
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...
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...
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
Gert Weisskirchen: “In the struggle against anti-Semitism the OSCE has found support in Ukraine”
A few years ago the OSCE conference in Berlin adopted several key decisions on overcoming anti-Semitism, which is surfacing in some countries and increasing in others. According to international...
04.11.2008 - 00:00
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
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...