№35, (2007)

For quite some time Ukrainian-Spanish relations have not been on a markedly high level. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Anatolii Zlenko last visited Spain in 1994 and our current foreign minister is going...

LVIV — At the end of a dark doorway we knock on a low door. A peephole opens and we hear the code words: Slava Ukraini! (Glory to Ukraine!) We reply: Heroiam slava! (Glory to its heroes!) “The answer...

In the last hundred years there have been three tuberculosis epidemics: in 1936 (after the Holodomor), 1947 (after the war), and 1995 (after perestroika). While in the first two cases the disease was...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has created the position of Ambassador for Special Assignments to Counteract Racism, Xenophobia, and Discrimination. The ministry’s press secretary Andrii...

British analyst James Sherr has always given precise assessments of the development of Ukraine’s political situation and he has hardly ever been mistaken in his forecast. As it is known, EU countries...

On Nov. 3, The Day published an article entitled “The language of science,” in which the author, Prof. V. Stavniuk, refuted an unidentified parliamentarian’s claim that the Ukrainian language has no...

What criteria should be used in determining the quality of education? What are the requirements of our times and how do they influence the tasks of education? These and other questions are raised in...

During his meeting with Ukrainian journalists Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Jacek Kluczkowski spoke fluent Ukrainian and answered questions mostly about Ukrainian-Polish relations, which have reached...

Ukraine seems to have entered an inexplicable or just fatal black period of manmade and natural disasters. Misfortunes are coming in like a flood. A gas explosion in Dnipropetrovsk. An environmental...

For many decades the eminent Ukrainian Orientalist Ahatanhel Krymsky built bridges between civilizations and cultures, especially between the rich cultures of his native Ukraine and the Oriental...

If I had known where I would fall, I would have put some straw underneath. This Ukrainian saying describes the reaction of the public to the disaster in the Strait of Kerch. Over the past 10 to 12...

A soiree was recently held in Seattle, Washington, to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian kobzar Terentii Parkhomenko. Parkhomenko’s pupil, the kobza and lira...

Physicians believe that most children’s diseases are caused by the wrong kind of diet. Even while trusting nursery personnel and schoolteachers, parents have no way to check what their children have...

Alisa Vlasenko, a student of the 31st group at the Bila Tserkva State Lyceum, recently sent an e-mail to our newspaper. In her letter she informed us that a scholarly conference devoted to James Mace...

A number of cultural events are taking place in Kyiv to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Conrad, the famous Polish-British writer with Ukrainian roots. The exhibit “Between...