№5, (2002)

“Following the 1999 presidential elections, Hryhory Surkis told The Day the time of transparency was approaching. Do you think the elections have produced the conditions for greater transparency in...

Yury RYBCHYNSKY, author of the White Raven rock opera: The white raven notion can be applied to politics and society, as politics is a part of society. In general, anything exceeding the...

In its figurative meaning in Ukrainian, the white raven stands for an undiscovered genius, the talk of the town, a troublemaker, an almost unreal image. However, there are not many places in the...

Kyiv’s Museum of Russian History and the local Aleksandr Pushkin Museum are staging an exposition, I Saw Pushkin in a Dream... with a series of works by the noted illustrator and Pushkin researcher...

Teodor Rezvoi has been on terra firma for more than a month after venturing a solo crossing of the Atlantic and returning to his native Odesa, his wife, son, and a great deal of publicity. He walks...

“...as we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Yet the state of our union has never been stronger... Our war on...

The National Philharmonic Society on February 1 housed the performance of Violino, a youth violin orchestra celebrating its 25th jubilee this year. In 1994, the Germans called the young violinists...

The new book by Tetiana Kara-Vasylieva, Masterpieces of Church Needlework in Ukraine (Twelfth to Twentieth Centuries) introduces readers to one of the most interesting and yet little known areas of...

The CD with the first Ukrainian rock opera Aeneid was played at a presentation at the Deja Vu Restaurant on February 3, and the whole affair had every hallmark of the Event of the Year. Small wonder...

The Irene Gallery opened a one-man show by Petro Hronsky, a fourth grader, fine arts faculty, Kyiv Children’s Academy of Art. The author is only twelve, and the Irene display includes his paintings,...

An event took place, traditionally ignored by big-time TV channels and prestigious printed media, but enjoyed by people fond of good music. Ania Gerasimova, better known as Umka [name of an extremely...

The Mystets Gallery on Velyka Vasylkivska Street opened a traditional exposition timed to St. Xenia’s Day. Also traditionally the exposition represented four woman artists: Oksana Milovzorova, Oksana...

Mikhail Bulgakov and Kyiv, the city in White Guard and Sergei Maksudov’s homeland in Black Snow: A Theatrical Novel; portrayals of the Dnipro spring flood, with the water “merging with the horizon”...

Next year Kyiv’s Goethe Institute, the German cultural center, will celebrate its tenth anniversary. Like the other 128 branches of the Goethe Institute in 76 countries, it makes a contribution to...

“It’s because of the hot sun here,” Olha Nenia says jokingly, explaining the color of skin of her twelve dark-skinned sons and daughters whom she adopted from the Kyiv orphanage for babies. Her close...