№59, (2010)
26.10.2010 - 00:00
Friends and foes...
“Being the president, it is my first election and there is no other person who would be more interested in holding the elections in a democratic and fair manner,” Viktor Yanukovych said about a month...
26.10.2010 - 00:00
“Nobody caught Danylyshyn”
Stepan Ukrainets, Bohdan Danylyshyn’s lawyer, claims that the ex-minister of economy himself decided to meet Ukrainian investigators and voluntarily came to the meeting in the Embassy of Ukraine in...
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Master of portrait and landscape painting
This year we celebrate the centenary of the birth of the renowned Ukrainian artist, the master of portrait and landscape painting Serhii Hryhoriev. The artist’s name is primarily associated...
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Swan’s Lake performance: Ukrainian-Belarusian version
Kyivan artists and their Belarusian colleagues performed the ballet Swan’s Lake on stage of Ukraine’s National Opera House within the framework of the Belarusian Days of Culture. The...
26.10.2010 - 00:00
Investors opt for biogas and elephant grass
Energy efficiency and alternative energy are now the key point in almost all governmental declarations and programs of national economic development. It is promised that this sector, now of top...
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Avant-garde and underground
The auction’s oldest work was Veniamin Babadzhan’s self-portrait dated 1913. This is the only known portrait of the talented artist, poet, and cultural expert, who was executed at the age of 26 on...
26.10.2010 - 00:00
Bereza Kartuska
On October 8, 2010, the medical college of Kremenets hosted a scholarly soiree commemorating Arsen Richynsky, a physician, philosopher, and public figure. A monument to this outstanding, albeit not...
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“One can shoot movies here”
During his last visit to the editorial office of The Day director and documentary filmmaker Vasyl Viter said that his students — sophomores of the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University had...
26.10.2010 - 00:00
Someday Italians will gladly wear Ukrainian-made clothes
The Italian National Chamber of Fashion was founded in 1958. The Ukrainian agenda was very distant from the sphere of aesthetics until well into Ukrainian independence, when the first Fashion Week...
26.10.2010 - 00:00
This day in history
1920: The Soviet/Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom) of the RSFSR adopts a decree instituting the “Ukrainian Labor Army.” 1920: The Red [Soviet] Ukrainian Cossack Cavalry Corps is established...
26.10.2010 - 00:00
Molodist festival: tears and celebrities
The 40th Molodist (Youth) Festival began with a befitting opening ceremony at the Shevchenko National Opera, with Gerard Depardieu and Renata Litvinova as emcees, starring BB, Nino Katamadze, and...
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EVENT
QR code in Lviv
This code [a matrix barcode, readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones; it consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background;...
26.10.2010 - 00:00
Putin’s revenge?
The intrigue surrounding the appointment of Luzhkov’s successor, which was almost obscenely long, is over. The selection of Moscow’s new mayor was carried out in accordance with the Byzantine...
26.10.2010 - 00:00
The time of radicals
The election campaign is in the homestretch now, with less than one week left until voting day. This is the first time in recent history that local elections have been held separately from the...
26.10.2010 - 00:00
Stop hanging over us!
Last days saw, so to speak, a “sign of de-Stalinization.” What prompted some writers to focus on this was an important event in Russia’s public life — a statement by Mikhail...