№35, (2001)

The attraction of Dmytro Bohomazov’s new play, The Throat (based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Sanctus), lays primarily in its festive, eccentric theatricality, which is characteristic of this director. The...

1638. The Cossack Rada approved the Ordinations (Statute) of the Zaporozhzhian Register Army in the Masliv Stav ravine. 1939. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR acknowledged fixing...

The expression, middle-aged crisis (in America also sometimes called male menopause — Ed.), is now in vogue. This psychological, or, rather, psychoanalytical, term means that a man, having achieved a...

The adoption of legislation designed to protect intellectual property and fair parliamentary elections are currently the two most pressing issues in Ukrainian-US relations. At any rate, one would...

Kyiv’s exhibition life the weekend before last was marked by two projects with an expressed, even aggressive social orientation. The RA Gallery had a sequel to its earlier Social Projections, a photo...

Just a year ago, Oleksandr Moroz played in Verkhovna Rada the first installment of Major Melnychenko’s tapes, having thus turned one of the murkiest pages in new millennium’s history of Ukraine. This...

The Griffin Gallery has opened Kyiv artist Mykola Hrokh’s personal exposition. The man seems to be skilled in every conceivable graphic technique. In addition, he teaches and managers an art studio...

The CIS jubilee summit is over. President Vladimir Putin of Russia, addressing the final press conference, called upon his counterparts to raise the true effectiveness of the CIS, to establish...

This December will mark 350 years since the birth of Ukraine’ s renowned enlightener Danylo Tuptalo, who went down in history as the Consecrator Dymytriy Rostovsky (of Rostov). A historian,...

“We have witnessed an impressive breakthrough in our bilateral relations,” Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana stressed during his visit to Kyiv. Bucharest really wants only to cajole the West...

November 25, 2001 marks 67 years since the demise of the president of the Ukrainian Central Rada and famous Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky. His death occurred in Kislovodsk, a spa city,...

“Preparations for the next election begin the day after the last one” is one of Central Election Committee Chairman My khailo Riabets pet phrases. This is quite true with regard to the CEC. Now that...

Recently, engaging in polemics with Professor Ivan Khmil on the pages of The Day, I remembered an English saying about skeletons in the closet, which the Soviet past is so rich in. The newspaper’s...

The river, sustaining serious damage from NATO air raids in 1999, has now been officially declared safe for navigation. The Danube Commission announced that the river had been cleared of debris from...

Kyiv has hosted an international conference dedicated to the seventy-first anniversary of the Olvia Historical Preserve. Olvia was an Ancient Greek polis. Despite its uniqueness, Olvia, as well as...