№54, (2012)
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Sanctioned barbarism
Environmental and animal protection organizations of Ukraine have urged the Ministry for Ecology again to ban the use of such a terrible poison as zinc phosphide. The demand is that the ministry...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Elections as a decoration
The fifth parliamentary elections in Belarus will take place next Sunday. According to the existing majoritarian system, 110 MPs will be elected from the corresponding number of districts to the...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Monument to village community – the righteous of this world – the only of its kind in Europe was opened in Bukovyna
The Monument to the Righteous was unveiled in the foothill village of Ispas in Chernivtsi oblast.
The monument was built to pay the tribute to the local community, which in 1941 led by village...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
“When people are having tea, all discrimination ceases to exist”
Great Master Sen Genshitsu, descendant of the founder of Sen no Rikyu tea ceremony, visited Ukraine for the first time. He gave an exclusive interview to The Day on the eve of his tea ceremony...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Lower luxury tax?
Lower import duty rates are envisaged by the bill “On Changes to the Law ‘On Customs Tariff’” submitted to the Verkhovna Rada by the Ministry of Economic Development and...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Alec ROSS: “We are not able to tweet our way to freedom”
Alec ROSS, Senior Adviser for Innovations to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is working on the most effective application of technological potential and innovations, as well as spearheading...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
34 Moments of Molody Theater
This play has become favorite for many fans of Kyiv Academic Molody Theater (staged after the play of a contemporary playwright, British citizen with Ukrainian roots, Irena Koval). During the play...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Julian KYTASTY: “It is dangerous to argue with bandura”
Julian Kytasty is a composer, singer, conductor, bandurist, kobzar, and flute player. He was born in 1958 in Detroit, USA. He graduated from the Montreal Conservatoire of the Concordia University...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Fantasts and realists
The government of Ukraine has done its best to move the 2013 state budget bill in the Verkhovna Rada within the stipulated period of time and finally did so. But the document proved to be imperfect...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Book Forum ended in Lviv
The event lasted from September 12 through 16, when both Leopolitans and guests of the city had an opportunity to participate in a huge literary and artistic performance held for the 19th time by...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
The world offers creative ideas when you look at it with wide-open eyes
I was so much impressed by one picture by Lilia Pashynska (a friend of mine received it as a present) that I came up with a desire to meet the artist. The picture showed Jesus with two rays...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Turkey-Russia partnership: signs of a rift
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Azerbaijan was more than a meeting between the leaders of two countries. The situation in the South Caucasus is anything but stable....
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Koktebel, “Blue Bay” and Jazz
International Festival “Live in Blue Bay” took place for the fourth time in the Crimean resort Blue Bay. This is the only forum where everyone could enjoy good music and listen to the...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
This day in history
1869: Date of birth of Mykola Tsertelev, Ukrainian folklorist, one of the first researchers and publishers of Ukrainian folk art. 1919: In Zhmerynka (Ukraine) an interim agreement on joint struggle...
20.09.2012 - 00:00
Verkhovna Rada plans to reintroduce the article about criminal responsibility for defamation
On September 18 members of the Ukrainian Parliament voted in the first reading for the amendments to the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and by doing so they increased the scope...