№35, (2012)

Last Sunday Oleksandr SOLONTAI, a Ukrainian political scientist, was barred entry to Russia when he arrived at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. Although border guards offered no reason, Solontai has a...

On June 6 Vitali Klitschko received the James A. Farley Award for Honesty and Integrity in Boxing in the US. We had spoken shortly before that. “This is an honorary prize from American...

Serhii Novikov belongs to the representatives of the Donetsk cultural environment who with their personality destroy the stereotypical image of a Donetsk resident rooted in people’s...

Only recently renewed Andriivsky Uzviz was inaugurated and the Kyivites already could walk there. There was also a gala concert and a stage show there. “We have done a tremendous job. I am...

It is not the first time that the premises in Podil (2, Mezhyhirska Street) have been encroached by business. On June 7 the staff of the Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and...

Today Russians are celebrating The Day of Russia. We sincerely congratulate all Russians on this holiday and wish them goodness and prosperity. Any date is also an opportunity to sum up the...

Foundation “Isolation. Platform for Cultural Initiatives,” based in Donetsk, today is one of the most successful regional organizations that deal with art. The Day already wrote about...

These are the plans of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine that has adopted the state program “Bioethanol.” According to it, arranging the production of alternative fuel is a state priority....

Lunch break. I got off the metro train onto the platform to stretch my legs and then went to the Luxembourg Gardens to rest a little on a bench, as many others do, near the fountain and forget for...

In September 1362, 650 years ago, in the southern steppes of Ukraine (probably, in what is today Kirovohrad oblast) an event happened, which defined the prospective trend of this country’s...

Ukraine has been accused of so many things before the beginning of the European Soccer Championship. Among the addressed topics were terrible infrastructure and poor service, deliberately...

Millions of the lives ruined by tyrannical regimes should in no way remain in the memory of descendants as mere “statistics.” Otherwise, there will be a danger of the rebirth of the...

Business people met with President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine on June 7 to discuss private domestic and foreign sector’s interest. Traditionally, the meeting was attended by the CEOs of...

1920: Ukraine’s first children’s theater starts functioning in Kharkiv (currently Lviv’s First Ukrainian Children and Youth Theater). 1934: The First Congress of Ukrainian Writers convenes in Kharkiv...

On June 5 the awardees of the new prize were announced. Yevhen Kontsevych the Unbowed Knight of Ukrainian Spirit International Award (this is the full name of the new prize) was founded by the...