№36, (2007)

The words of Mykhailo Hrushevsky in the heading of this article aptly capture the significance of the Third Universal, which was adopted by the Ukrainian Central Rada and promulgated 90 years ago, on...

On Nov. 23, after six months of political confrontations, the Verkhovna Rada finally started functioning. Although we never saw an Orange coalition or a new speaker, Nov. 23 turned out to be a purely...

Last Thursday young people were handing out leaflets to passersby in the streets of ancient Kamianets. “Don’t forget to light a candle in your window!” the leaflets read. People hurrying past,...

Almost 17 years have passed since Ukraine told “Holy Russia” (USSR) to shove it. On the winding and thorny road to national independence (we are still on it), Ukraine has experienced victories and...

Remembering the horrors of totalitarian dictatorships means accelerating and facilitating the process of their final annihilation. Totalitarianism does not perish when a “decisive and lasting...

The front-page article with the above headline was published on Feb. 18, 2003. Every year since then our newspaper has appealed to both readers and our fellow Ukrainians to place a lighted candle in...

TBILISI — The fact that Levan Gachechiladze was nominated as a presidential candidate in Georgia came as a surprise to many people. Experts had predicted a more experienced politician for this post....

There are problems galore as Ukraine approaches the final stretch of preparing for the Euro-12 soccer championship. According to sports organizations, the Western press is reporting now and again...

For many years Valery Akopov, an artist who recorded the image of vanishing Kyiv, was branded as a “slanderer of Soviet reality.” Thirty five years ago Akopov, shocked by the fact that his beloved...

Nov. 27 1648: King Jan Casimir II of Poland signs an edict guaranteeing Cossack privileges. 1918: The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences is founded in Kyiv (today: the National Academy of Sciences of...

Today’s featured guest of The Day’s column “Our Country through Foreigners’ Eyes” is Fabio Fabbri, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Italy to Ukraine. We asked him the following two...

The smell of freshly-cut boards dominates in the new school building in the village of Zalisoche, Volyn oblast. The principal, Svitlana Zbyrun, jokes that repairs here “have not stopped, they’re on...

The Day has already published articles on the 85th anniversary of the Museum of Russian Art in our capital and the fact that there are only two other museums in the world like the Kyiv one-the...

Imagine that a huge asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. Scientists tell us that there is a 10 percent chance of a collision in 10 years, and that the consequences of its impact will be catastrophic....

Three years ago, in the late fall of 2004, an event took place in Kyiv known as the Maidan. No sooner had the Central Electoral Commission headed by Serhii Kivalov announced that Viktor Yanukovych...