№40, (2005)

A CELEBRATED ARTIST The name of Nil Antonovych Khasevych was restored to art lovers after Ukraine won its independence. Works that the artist created when he was in the Ukrainian underground began...

Condoleezza Rice last visited Ukraine four years ago. Since then much has changed in the lives of Ukrainians and in the life of the American guest herself. In 2001 she visited Kyiv as the president’s...

Over time the uncomfortable truth is becoming increasingly clear: all those declarations about the “European vector,” however sincere, are one thing, but the hard work to meet the deadlines for...

On December 10 Ukraine observed the International Day of Human Rights. Five years ago the Ukrainian leadership ratified the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms,...

The Ukraine-Russia gas talks registered a noticeable shift on Dec. 8, and we were persistently warned about this for some time. Lately, optimism and a great deal of confidence have become the...

For the first time viewers are seeing the heroes of the Indian epic on the Ukrainian stage. Stage director Andriy Prykhodko has based his production on the Mahabharata and the plays of Kalidasa. With...

European Parliament members still cherish the hope that Ukraine will some day join the European Union, while European Commission and EU Council bureaucrats are refraining from this kind of forecast....

The Kyiv branch of the National Composers’ Union of Ukraine hosted a press conference devoted to the preparations for the Nicola Visalli Microtonal Music Competition. The competition is organized...

On Dec. 8 the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (APN) hosted a meeting to discuss how to raise children and youth in a moral and ethical fashion in today’s complicated social conditions. Raising...

December 13, 1918. An uprising took place in Kyiv against the hetman’s rule, and the Directory entered the city. 1941. The Nazis arrested prominent Ukrainian intellectuals who were active OUN members...

Oleksandr Filoniuk, president of the League of Insurance Organizations of Ukraine, complains that the insurance business, while being actively developed here, is increasingly feeling the lack of...

It appears that the epistolary genre is gradually becoming a thing of the past, giving way to mobile means of communication. Phone calls and short messages vanish without a trace, and researchers of...

President Viktor Yushchenko has signed Directive No. 1260/2005-rp, dated Dec. 2, 2005, on measures to perpetuate the memory of James Mace, who was a public figure and researcher of the 1932-1933...

The Molodyi Theater is the last of the capital’s drama companies to start the new season, but there were objective reasons for this: major renovations to the structure, which considerably delayed the...

Maryna Zamyatina, editor of the English-language digest of The Day, and Viktor Zamyatin, a well-known journalist specializing in foreign affairs, are the proud parents of a baby boy. They say that...