№39, (2002)

Songs are the inherent foundations, the inner original source of the theater. The “goat song” of the Old Greeks, a ritual that turned into tragedy, is only one example we know from the school...

December 4 marked the awards ceremony of the first stage of the Petro Jacyk International Ukrainian Language Contest. The awards were conferred during a ceremonial assembly at the Ukrainian Military...

On the eve of parliamentary hearings on the freedom of speech in Ukraine, The Day conducted an interview with Serhiy VASYLIEV, chief of the Presidential Administration’s Information Policies...

Serhiy ZVIERIEV, director, Institute of Mass Information: The very fact of the hearings is very important. People could voice their suggestions and remarks. As to their effectiveness, the...

About two months ago, The Day, jointly with Olha Herasymyuk, launched a campaign to collect books for a library destroyed by fire in the township of Chornukhy, Poltava oblast. It all started with a...

Perhaps not many people outside Western Ukraine know about Berezhany, a small picturesque city on the banks of the Zolota Lypa River in Ternopil oblast, unless somebody recalls the old song, “...

The government together with the parliament has created a working group to further elaborate the 2003 draft budget. The new ministers and the deputies who have elected them have made up their minds...

1. From Moscow to Novoheorhiyivsk When Afanasy Fet turned 25, he was a long way from Moscow, where he had spent his youth as a student. No sooner had he completed his unusually long six year...

Volodymyr Hryshko, a noted Ukrainian operatic singer, has of late performed practically only with the Mariyinsky Company in St. Petersburg, directed by the famous Valery Georgiyev. They have toured...

FROM BALLET TO WRESTLING MAT Strange as it may seem, the world freestyle wrestling champion once contemplated the career of a ballerina. She went to a ballet studio and even tried to enroll in a...

Kyiv-based artist Nina Maksymova’s new one woman show is titled Love Melodies. Every work presented at the exhibition contains some new shadow, new nuance of an old (or, rather, ancient) plot:...

Twenty-four girls, semifinalists of the Miss Mykolayiv-2002 beauty contest (photo), spent twelve hours in the storefront of a shop on Radianska Street, Mykolayiv’s main thoroughfare. Passersby and...

December 5 marked the closing day of the Third Ukrainian Culinary Arts Festival, which drew some 200 participants from among public catering establishments and organizations. However, the term public...

Another round table — The Church, the State, and Society — organized the Wednesday before last by the Razumkov Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Research, State Committee on Religions, and...

VOCALISTS The greatest number of contestants (67) vied in the vocal solo nomination. Here the screening was especially tough and disappointments severe. Many interesting and original singers were...