№38, (2009)

The launch of the global environmental summit in Copenhagen has not made the planetary scientists more optimistic as it looks that it will not offer truly efficient solutions to counteract the...

The session of the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Paris late on December 15 discussed and passed the report on the need for...

There are two Europes. One is the historical Europe of ideas, principles, protection of the personality and entire nations, and the years-long struggle for implementing these ideals. The other one is...

In an interview with Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey, head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, in conjunction with the Ukrainian President’s visit to Switzerland in May 2009, she told...

1920: The Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets convenes and adopts the GOELRO plan. 1941: An underground resistance organization starts functioning in the Nazi-occupied village of Malyn. 1942: The...

Fairy-tale adventures: just a beginningIn December 24 the Ukraina National Palace of Arts will host The New-Year Kaleidoscope, a charitable production for children to which residents of Kyiv’s...

First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko invited the wives of diplomats and heads of international organizations’ offices in Ukraine to a meeting to acquaint them with Ukrainian Christmas traditions. This year...

On Dec. 14, 2009, the Euro 2012 Football Championship logo was presented in Kyiv, reports UNIAN. The grand opening took place in Mykhailivska square. The logo is a football with two flowers. The...

The Day spent December 11 at Zhytomyr State University. The The Day-2009 photo exhibit was opened here; it will last in Zhytomyr until January 11. The book conference “The Formation of the Historic...

It is almost 18 years since the Ukrainian secret service was reformed (the Law of Ukraine “On the Security Service of Ukraine” was passed on March 25, 1992, when the service was still headed by...

On St. Andrew’s Night the Ivan Honchar Museum was packed. This folk cultural center was marking its 50th anniversary, launching a jubilee exhibit, setting up an ethnic club, and holding an ethnodisco...

Ukraine is rightfully considered in the world as a country that guarantees the rights of its citizens and the freedom of assembly, rallies and speech. But the foiled launching of the book Without...

On December 24, the concert “Puccini’s Musical Images” will star Lidia Zabiliasta, Oleksandr Hurets, Pavlo and Petro Pryimak, Andrii Romanenko, Serhii Pashchuk, Mykhailo Kyryshev, and the chorus...

Two years ago a large scale Moscow-based media project with the weird title “The Name of Russia” placed him 28th among the 50 most outstanding Russians. Five times more Russian nationals voted the...

Lviv is hosting Ukraine’s first-ever Christmas Fair that will last for more than a month and will close on Jan. 21, 2010. The organizers are convinced that it will become a center of celebration with...