№50, (2011)

“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....

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...

The Virgin’s Intercession icon was returned to Ukraine this July by the Russian art collector Igor Vozyakov who had paid 350,000 euros for it. It was among the 22 icons that had been stolen...

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...

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 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...

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...

Obviously, after the Ukrainian Minister of Education, Science, Youth and Sports Dmytro Tabachnyk was not fired as it had been announced in the lobby, the students seem to be losing their patience....

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...

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...

“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...

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 rural youth has always tried to move closer to town. There they can find jobs, money, and prospects. It is much simpler to go to strange lands and pursue your happiness there than try and...

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...