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Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky (1864-1937) is one of the most tragic figures in Ukraine’s modern history. This Ukrainian hierarch founded the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and...

On Nov. 24 people throughout Ukraine lit candles in their windows to pay homage to their millions of brothers and sisters who perished during the Holodomor of 1932-33, engineered by the mustachioed...

Three years ago the stormy presidential election of 2004, also known as the Orange Revolution, stirred up enormous interest in the world. On Nov. 22 this year I was waiting for one of its main...

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....

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...

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...

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...

On Nov. 22 Ukraine marked the third anniversary the Orange Revolution. When this article was being sent to bed, some 150 persons had gathered on the Maidan, most of them journalists. There was a...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

Descriptions of Japan should be placed in the context of “Japan and the rest of the world.” After all my travels I have not sensed that I have seen a country that even remotely resembles Ukraine,...

Every year there are 1,700 cases of cancer among children in Ukraine. Half of them die. Statistics are faceless, but hidden behind them are children’s lives cut short, parents’ tears, and suffering....

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...