№47, (2012)

A well-known sportsman, active citizen, and, since last week, parliamentary candidate told The Day about what encourages him to invest in the state, what he thinks about the language law, why he...

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...

Among all the media hype, surrounding the case of Pussy Riot, none of the numerous observers seems to have tried and dig into the band’s artistic pedigree. Interestingly, Pussy Riot’s protest actions...

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...

“Russian ruling elite can be described through a model of Soviet collective governmental body – the CPSU Central Committee’s Politburo,” such a conclusion was made by the...

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...

August 22, 1991, saw the end of the so-called August Putsch, when the State of Emergency Committee (GKChP), established a few days before, ceased to exist. The past 21 years have been a historic...

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...

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...

I seldom write about the women’s movement FEMEN because as newsmakers they have hardly ever been worth writing about. However, this time around they sent more powerful ripples than their hackneyed...

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...

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...

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...