№47, (2012)

On July 23 in Brussels, Ukraine managed to successfully complete the difficult process of approval by European partners of the next step in the simplification of visa regime for its nationals....

  Visitors of the National Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum have now an opportunity to relish the paintings and sculptures to which only specialists have had access until now. After the...

Pavlo Makov is one of the most interesting contemporary Ukrainian artists. In the purely artistic sense he occupies a separate niche, since such a complex and archaic technique as etching...

Ukrainians are ready to join the initiative put forward by The Day and put on stylish embroidered shirts on Independence Day. Donning an embroidered shirt on this special day is not a political...

Bureaucrats are going to teach Ukrainian farmers how to farm well on the leased land. In any case, this is the impression one can gain from the statement of Mykhailo Dobkin, head of the Kharkiv...

On August 24 through 25 Kamianets-Podilsky (Khmelnytsky oblast) will hold the Second Military-Historical Festival “Last Capital,” dedicated to the UNR time. As a reminder: in 1919-20...

The Fifth International Rock Festival “Step into the Future” will take place in Kherson from August 31 through September 1 under the slogan “No to drugs, smoking, and alcohol.” According to the...

Excavations will start in Arsenalna Square and part of a block in Staroievreiska Street of Lviv in early September, 2012. This area has been associated with the Jewish community life in Lviv, serving...

Danylo Narbut lived in Cherkasy for 33 years. First he worked in the Cherkasy Taras Shevchenko Theater, then retired and painted a lot. The memorial museum promised to open one large room of changing...

The other day Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski signed a law allowing dual nationality. According to the new legislation, an applicant for a Polish passport need not refuse the previous...

The Les Kurbas Theater opened the new season with the last premiere of the last season, the play Lisova Pisnia by Lesia Ukrainka, created with the assistance of Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for...

The Day is bringing to the Lviv Forum of Publishers a whole new series of books, “Armor-piercing political writing.” This formidable title was not accidental, for this series includes the best works...

1037: Chronicles mention the foundation by Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kyivan Rus’ first library at St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv. 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s army defeats Polish troops at Pilavtsi....

Last Sunday Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia ended a four-day visit to Poland. The main goal of this visit, which had been in preparation since 2009, was to sign, together with Metropolitan...