№39, (2007)

The United States needs to rediscover how to be a “smart power.” That was the conclusion of a bipartisan commission that I recently co-chaired with Richard Armitage, the former deputy secretary of...

Donetsk is a city of contrasts and acute associations to Ukrainian national consciousness. It is a “city of a million roses” and dozens of garbage disposal sites; a city of miners, workers, and...

An important event in Kyiv’s religious life took place on Dec. 13. That day the Ukrainian translation of the European Ecumenical Charter (Charta Oecumenica) was launched. The charter, which offers...

The awards ceremony “Sociologist of the Year,” a unique event in Ukraine, was held on Dec. 11, 2007. This is the first award for young scholars established by a scholarly society rather than the...

There are many countries, including Iran’s neighbors, who view Iran as an influential player in the Middle East. What is preventing Tehran from realizing this potential to regulate problems in the...

Television’s interest in historical topics is wandering over from the print media, above all The Day with its regular columns “Ukraine Incognita” and “History and I,” and our newspaper’s Library...

Dec. 18, 1942. The capture of the village of Pivnivka launched liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi Germans. 2004. The Associated Press circulates two versions of Viktor Yushchenko’s interview about...

On Dec. 13 Lesia Ukrainka Gymnasium No. 117 in Kyiv hosted a meeting between The Day editor in chief and students from grades 10 and 11. The gathering was held on the students’ own initiative....

The Day has already published reports on the destruction of historic architectural landmarks in Kyiv, particularly those at the Kyivan Cave Monastery. A few days ago Serhii Krolevets, director...

On Dec. 11, 2007, the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources held the finals of the journalism contest Let’s Save Together! The contest, the second of its kind, was organized by the...

Academic art dictates its own terms. It requires the proper attitude and creates an atmosphere of emotion and large scale. It is characterized by stable images, characteristic landscapes, and...

Pollution along the coastline and the death of over 150 birds on the Ukrainian side are the results of the disaster that occurred on Nov. 11 this year in the Strait of Kerch. This is the conclusion...

Volodymyr Vynnychenko coined the phrase, “You can’t read Ukrainian history without bromide.” Today this saying is often quoted with the following implication: look at how complicated and tragic our...

According to statistics, over a million couples in Ukraine cannot have children. Unofficial data, considered by doctors to be more realistic, are even sadder: one in five married couples in our...

The closer we get to Jan. 1, 2008, the day the moratorium on farmland sales ends, the more passionate the public debate on whether it is worthwhile extending the ban. Also adding fuel to the fire are...