№57, (2010)

The 21st International Festival of Academic Music is over. Traditionally, Kyiv Music Fest was held by the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. Seeking to defend its status as the most...

1653: The Muscovite tsar’s envoys, headed by Vasily Buturlin, are dispatched to Pereiaslav, to receive the Zaporozhian Host’s oath of allegiance to Muscovy. 1914: Members of the Galician (Halychyna)...

For many years endless conversations about modernizing the economy, implementing innovations, using nanotechnologies etc. have been heard in Russia. However, the concept has yet to move beyond mere...

“We are not considering tax pre-ferences for small business because if there are two differently-taxed entities in one field, one of them is bound to go bankrupt,” Deputy Prime Minister...

The Day has met with the actress who performs the leading part of Grandmother in the play of Lithuania’s Russian Drama Theater at the international festival “Theater. Chekhov. Yalta....

“When the winter is over, and the first flowers appear in early spring, they are few, but we know that the spring will come, and there will be thousands of flowers.” This was one of the...

Over a year ago, three-men crew of the cruising yacht Ivanois sailed from the port of Odesa to circumnavigate the world. They dedicated their journey to the 215th anniversary of their native city...

A US satellite has reportedly spotted intense activity — excavation and construction — at North Korea’s former nuclear site in Yongbyon. It will be recalled that a nuclear reactor’s cooling tower was...

The national economy is in bad need of change. This is not a new slogan, but all Ukrainian politicians and powers-that-be tend to take it up, thus emphasizing their keen desire to save the country...

Every feast of classical dance in the miner’s capital is an extraordinary cultural event, but this one stood out more than usual. Both the participants and the audience described it as...

Paul Abraham’s charming music inspired the artistic director of the Kyiv Operetta Theater Bohdan Strutynsky to undertake Ukraine’s first production of the play Ball at the Savoy....

President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek noted significant progress in the European integration process of Ukraine. He made this declaration in Brussels after meeting with Prime Minister of...

Ukrainian lawmakers have lately made a few attempts to amend grain market regulation. Proposals, as always, were “from the bottom of one’s heart” and not “of convenience....

Impressive historical dramas can be reproduced in different ways. One can write thorough research, study archives, create documentaries, or apply the methodology of the epistolary genre — there are...

The UN prognosis that in 2050 the population of Ukraine may shrink to 35 million people has apparently worried the members of Ternopil Oblast Council to such an extent that they decided to resort to...