№39, (2009)

More than a dozen nominations, hundreds of participants, thousands of posters, media articles, and commercials urging women to reject abortion, calling for efforts against AIDS, for helping orphans...

1653: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s troops defeat the Polish army at Zhvanets. 1917: Soviet Russia’s Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom) issues a decree that transfers education from religious...

1. Traditionally, what are your personal ratings of the most important events in 2009, in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world?2. Do you think that Ukraine and Ukrainians have changed over the past...

European integration remains Ukraine’s key strategy, a means of self-assertion as an independent European democracy, and a motive for domestic reforms, declared President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine...

Today one can frequently see billboards that claim “The Donbas does not change its convictions. Yanukovych is our president!” in the east of Ukraine. But they prove wrong as it does change. According...

The readers of Den/The Day are familiar with the name of Igor Chubais. His article “Who Destroyed Stalinism” attracted keen interest. In it Igor Chubais stressed the special role played by the...

In Lviv Ukraine officially signed an agreement to link UARNET, the Ukrainian network of fiber optic electronic communication, to the Polish academic system of communication Pioneer, which is a part...

That evening the Luigi Sturzo Institute was unusually quiet, with only one conference hall lit — and this in the merrily bustling center of Rome shortly before Christmas, with hospitably open...

Last Friday a large number of people gathered on an embankment in the Swiss town of Vevey. Representatives of Switzerland’s municipal and federal authorities, diplomats from over 15 countries,...

The topic of immigration is one of the main challenges faced by the countries of the European Union. Although immigration policy remains the prerogative of national governments, the EU is quite...

The catalogue presents the works of 102 artists and sculptors. According to exhibit organizers, it took four months to choose the exposition, its prime criterion being the ability to give a full...

Traditionally, Ukrainians strongly associate sociology with elections and ratings. There is nothing strange about it, as elections are a permanent phenomenon in Ukraine. However, in reality ratings...

The participants of the 19th annual Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program have returned to Ukraine, full of positive emotions from their sojourn in Canada and knowledge they acquired while working in...

It has been four years since the start of the Bologna process in Ukraine. However, students as the immediate participants of this educational innovation cannot see either noticeable progress or the...

TSAR NICHOLAS II GOT RUSSIA INVOLVED IN WWI The Kremlin and hits civilian-clad historians recently ignited ideological battles over the causes and motive forces of World War II, which have swept...