№50, (2011)

Lina Kostenko became Professor Honoris Causa of the Mykhailo Drahomanov National Pedagogical University [see The Day, No.49. – Ed.]. It was a touching event, full of genuineness –...

The sea, the sun, and music... What can be better than leaving city fuss for four September days during the velvet season and find oneself at the Jazz-Koktebel 2011? All three stages featured stars...

The intrigue of Saturday’s meeting between President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine, his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, and Prime Minister and practically presidential candidate Vladimir...

ZAPORIZHIA — The Dnipropetrovsk NGO “Hrad” is intently watching the developments around the destroyed monument to Stalin in Zaporizhia. In particular, they were the first to...

This year the World Ballet Stars Forum has changed its format. The opening will take place in Kyiv, not in Donetsk (the festival’s homeland), afterwards the residents of the Donbas’s...

The Leo City, as every year at this time, is holding the Golden Lion International Theater Festival. As its constant director Yaroslav Fedoryshyn told The Day, this year the Lviv citizens and...

“We are from Ukraine,” the lady MC solemnly said, opening a concert to mark the 20th anniversary of Ukraine, which was held the other day at Bern’s Yehudi Menuhin concert hall....

It is a long time ago that Ukraine lost Starodubshchyna (former Mhlyn, Novozybkiv, Starodub, and Suraz districts of Chernihiv gubernia), one of the greatest pearls of its North. These lands had...

Ukraine has gone through two difficult years when everybody started talking about the economic crisis and felt it. The International Center for Long-Term Studies has recently carried out a thorough...

The eighth conference in Yalta, organized by YES (Yalta European Strategy), has passed into history. Remembering its timid beginnings I was impressed by the momentum and the development of this...

The government will initiate revision of certain paragraphs of Cooperation agreement with the World Trade Organization (WTO). “Now a moment came when we can start negotiations with the WTO...

“No other country will ever be able to make Ukraine Ukrainian. Only self-organized Ukrainians outside state structures will be able to do it. And I firmly believe that it will happen this way...

1783: The Black Sea Fleet’s first battleship Slava Ekateriny [Glory to Catherine] is launched at the Kherson Shipyard. 1885: Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute starts functioning as Ukraine’s first higher...

Recently Afghans mourned the death of the chief negotiator with the Talibs, the former president of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani. By coincidence the ceremony of commemorating Rabbani, Chief of...