№34, (2012)

This year’s venue of the competition was the European Town Platform near the People’s Friendship Arch. According to the results of the previous stage of competition, collections created by 18 young...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the bill “On Principles of the Official Language Policy” (No. 9073) in its first reading. This notorious draft law was drawn up by members of...

The southern village of Stara Zburyivka, which has attained nationwide fame in the struggle against bureaucracy, will soon have the Internet   Viktor MARUNIAK: “We are waiting for a...

What plagues human advance? First, there’s “Radical Inertia.” This is a deep resistance to change, encountered whenever a way of doing or seeing things is deeply ingrained in us or our systems....

UNIAN reports that the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine has failed to hold an auction selling T-bills scheduled for June 5; that during that auction the investors were offered to buy such bills for...

1707: Hetman Ivan Mazepa of Ukraine and Charles XII of Sweden start secret talks on joint action against Peter I of Russia. 1768: The Ukrainian Cossack and peasant rebellion against Poland, known as...

Russia’s monopolist gas company Gazprom is obviously alarmed by Ukraine’s statement to the effect that it will pump Russia’s gas to its underground storage facilities (USF) to meet its ends, no one...

This year musicians from 14 countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, Lithuania, South Korea, Russia, the US, Ukraine, France, and Japan) will take part in the...

Next Monday Ukraine’s national soccer team will play its first official match since November 2009. This will be a Euro-2012 group stage game against the national team of Sweden. Owing to Euro-2012,...

Pawel Kowal, Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament, told The Day in a previous interview that there are four to five legal ways of solving the...

Expositions of works by plastic artists from Ukraine, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, Russia, the Netherlands, and China will be open for a month. First International Festival of Contemporary...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a well-known American political scientist, a professor at Johns Hopkins University; a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a...

The West seems to be losing patience over Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. After the recent Houla massacre, which claimed the lives of over a hundred people, more than a half of them being...

An old medieval saying goes: “City air makes you free.” Tellingly, this proverb emerged in Germany, whose urban centers, first of all, Magdeburg and Hamburg, learned to effectively...