№39, (2007)

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....

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...

History never tires of teaching lessons — often very cruel ones — to those who are able to learn these lessons at least to some extent. One of the most important lessons is that a statesman who...

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...

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...

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...

Thaddeus Kosciusko (Tadeusz Kosciuszko) (1746-1817) is a well-known name. The Poles consider him their national hero. He is an honorary citizen of France and the US, where he made a sizable...

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...

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...

Theater buffs from all over Ukraine recently gathered in Lviv to congratulate the actors of the Maria Zankovetska Theater, Ukraine’s first state-run theater founded in September 1917. When the actors...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Viennese Opera Ball was the conclusion of a season of balls that featured over 10 events. This is quite a high number for a country where ball traditions were revived relatively recently. The...