№38, (2005)

29 November 1661. Lviv University was founded, now named for Ivan Franko. 1989. The reburial of victims of Stalinist repression took place in Ivano-Frankivsk. 30 November 1921. The All-Ukrainian...

The jubilee gala concert of Kostiantyn Fesenko, Merited Artist of Ukraine and the National Opera’s concertmaster, stands every chance of being named the musical event of the year that is now drawing...

The Voters’ Committee of Ukraine has noted a considerable improvement in the atmosphere surrounding the preparations for the elections in the sense of securing citizens’ political rights, KVU...

Somebody may have wanted everything to turn out as well as possible, but things turned out as usual. The politicians headed by the nation’s top leadership used this celebration of freedom to advance...

Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov of Ukraine has described the 2006 budget as a socially balanced development budget. But there are grounds for questioning this statement. Development is somewhat...

Many hopes, including European integration, were placed in the Orange Revolution, the first anniversary of which was marked last week. In his inaugural address President Viktor Yushchenko repeatedly...

The second week of gossip is swirling around the charitable auction that took place in Kharkiv on Nov. 19. The most interesting lots were kegs of honey from Viktor Yushchenko’s apiary and 18th-...

In the past few days gas has increasingly been a favorite subject of public gossip and statements by Ukrainian politicians. This topic is the subject of active speculations in order to earn election-...

“Dear editors of the newspaper The Day, My name is Natalia Zhelnova, and I am a student at Zaporizhia National University. I recently read the book Day and Eternity of James Mace and was moved by the...

Aleksandr Lukashenko believes that relations between Belarus and Ukraine “are not bad,” despite Kyiv’s “special” stand with regard to Minsk. “The Ukrainian leadership is taking a special stand, and...

(Continued from Part 4, The Day, Nov. 22). In my previous article I pointed out that I no longer use the term “Stalinism,” which is widely used in both Ukraine and the West. As I reread that article...

The Russian and pro-Russian media in Ukraine (not in Russia!) are still raging at the fact that the so-called Uniates — the Ukrainian Greek Catholics — are enjoying all those religious freedoms that...

On Nov. 22 the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine held a soiree in Kyiv commemorating the noted American scholar James Mace. The event, an initiative of his widow, Natalia Dziubenko-Mace, was emceed...

The annual global fundraiser World Children’s Day at McDonald’s took place simultaneously in 16 Ukrainian cities. This year the objective is to collect money for the reconstruction of a family room...

The change of power in Ukraine and subsequent events that occurred in the post-Soviet space has presented many challenges to Russia’s foreign policy. In an interview with The Day , Boris KUZNETSOV,...