№40, (2002)

Each of us feels that the surrounding world is dominated by mediocrity. Each tries to solve this problem his own way. Some hasten to paint this world with bright colors, others break stereotypes by...

President Leonid Kuchma and Premier Viktor Yanukovych met in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin and Premier Mikhail Kasyanov, December 9. They discussed trade and economic cooperation, fuel-and-...

How do Ukrainian churches help the needy? By prayers alone? Do they remember that Christ delivered not only sermons but also bread to people? We begin publishing a series of articles on the...

In 2002, the fastest-growing legal business in Ukraine was petroleum refining. Over the past eleven months, Ukrainian oil refineries stepped up production by 57.6%, thus outstripping their closest...

A new high-speed train to run between the capital and Dnipropetrovsk, five hundred kilometers of the super modern Kyiv-Odesa highway and the country’s airports reconstruction — those are the things...

Conclusion. For beginning see Ukrayina Incognita in The Day № 39

They will shortly surround the St. Sophia of Kyiv historical-cultural preserve with attention and care. Good news, of course, after all those years of underfunding and lack of understanding of the...

The first concert was dedicated to the famous Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, whose 120th jubilee had been celebrated across the world this year. His talent was extremely diversified. In fact, his...

A poetic text shows a high degree of self-sufficiency, so squeezing out of the author something he hasn’t written wouldn’t seem proper. However, a living culture means not only creating texts, but...

The Akvarel [watercolor] Gallery has opened Volodymyr Isupov’s one man show. Softness, vagueness, reticence, and other watercolor epithets do not apply to his works. Balkan and Crimean landscapes,...

On the Sunday before last, Volodymyr Klychko successfully defended again his WBO superheavyweight champion’s belt in a bout against Jameel McCline. The crammed Mandala Bay arena in Las Vegas...

When you come to the village of Skovorodynivka in Kharkiv oblast the monument to the celebrated philosopher is the first thing to catch the eye. Close by there is his memorial museum. Here everything...

On December 12, the French embassy in Kyiv held the Skovoroda Prize award ceremony. Over the ten years since this prize was instituted for the best translation from French into Ukrainian, about 100...

A Ukrainian-American-Slovak-Russian project would best describe the film, Blood Ties, which Oleh Harenchar, an American film director of Slovak descent, started shooting recently. It is a romantic...

Opera devotees in Ukraine know about Kateryna Abdullina, currently doing an on-job-training at the National Opera, winner of the program “The New Names of Ukraine.” She graduated from the National...