№5, (2008)

No society can move ahead without a full realization of what happened to it 20, 50, 70, and 100 years ago or without understanding what tragedies, sacrifices, and horrific sweeping changes its...

The unanimous approval by the General Council of World Trade Organization (WTO) of the protocol on Ukraine’s membership is a crucial step towards the logical conclusion of the process of the...

For decades Hnat Yura’s name symbolized the stability of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater and, to a certain extent, its conservative approach. For many theatergoers the actor would...

It has become a bad habit that each new Ukrainian government creates unnecessary confusion in regards to Ukraine’s NATO membership. When Victor Yanukovich came with his first official visit to...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has uncovered documents that indicate that the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was not implicated in anti-Jewish actions in Lviv in July 1941....

Feb. 12 1921: The Standing Council on the Struggle against Banditry is formed under the Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 1960: Ukraine’s first experimental nuclear reactor becomes...

The Antarctic is the planet’s only continent that does not belong to anyone. According to the Antarctic Treaty System, nationals of all countries are entitled to set foot on the shores of this land...

It smells of paint and quicklime inside the Ministry of Justice at 13 Horodetsky Street after recent renovations. On a small pedestal in the stairwell is a statue of Themis holding a sword in her...

The quintessence of a nation’s historical experience is probably the best way to describe the 1,000-page study entitled Ukraina: politychna istoriia Ukrainy XX — pochatku XXI stolittia (Ukraine:...

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer believes that the Bucharest Summit will be a wonderful occasion to re-consider relations between Ukraine and the Alliance. He said this in Vilnius after...

During a recent roundtable dedicated to a discourse on sociology Yevhen Holovakha, deputy director of the Institute of Sociology at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU), The Day’s...

Alchemy of Simplicity is the title of an art show that just opened at the Griffon Gallery. On display are paintings by the Zhytomyr-based artist Yurii Kamyshny, which co-exist organically with the...

It is a thankless task to enumerate all the honorary titles that have been conferred on Mykola KOSTRYTSIA. This well-known Zhytomyr-based scholar heads the Department of the Methodology of Natural...

The capital of Ukraine no longer has its unique Wax Museum. In early February it was forced out of its building on 11 Pushkinska Street, and the wax figures of politicians and celebrities were placed...

SIMFEROPOL — The Crimean government is concerned about the 55,000 tons of fuel oil mixed with sand and algae in the seaport of Kerch, which were collected following the shipwreck of Russian tankers...