№6, (2008)

The Russia Channel recently broadcast the documentary The Five Deaths of Symon Petliura (screenwriter Viktor Savchenko, director Igor Grigoriev). This production was preceded by another “historical...

Continued from The Day (no. 5, Feb. 12, 2008) Around June 1604 a military camp was set up in the vicinity of Lviv, to which Jerzy Mniszech invited anyone who was willing to participate in False...

Politics is one of the TV serials Ukrainians keep watching. A recent poll by Kyiv’s International Institute of Social Studies shows that almost every fourth resident of Ukraine believes that the...

Even today, whenever I spot a man who looks like Jim, my heart skips a beat and before I know it, I am rushing toward him, only to see a stranger’s face with a puzzled look in his eyes. Once again I...

Kyiv and Moscow are satisfied with the outcome of the negotiations between President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, which took place recently in Moscow. The...

Before assuming his current office, First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Tomas Pojar worked in non-governmental organizations. He chaired the People in Trouble foundation and...

Feb. 19 1992: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts the Tryzub (Trident) as the Small National Emblem of Ukraine, regarding it as the main element of the Great National Emblem. 2002: When the first...

Throughout 2008 Ukraine and Lithuania’s hearts will be beating in the same rhythm, the “rhythm of European civilization.” That is how Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekunas...

The Day has been closely following Ukraine’s preparations for Euro 2012. So far we have heard mostly comments from members of the political leadership, individual politicians, officials from the...

Ukraine appears to be making every effort to take advantage of the opportunity connected with the holding of a joint session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation...

Stefan Niesielowski, the Deputy Speaker of the Polish Sejm, represents the ruling coalition and is a member of the Civic Platform Party. Before this, he was the chairman of the Senate Foreign...

President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine has used his right to legislative initiative and submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada entitled “On the Legal Status of Participants in the Struggle for...

Age is no barrier to love. But it is not easy for a couple to live together for 50 years. Nobody knows how many golden couples live in Kyiv, but the territorial center of Pechersk district found 11...

In Kyiv, the Francophone community is growing, as a rule thanks to businessmen and embassy employees. But this does not mean that it is represented only by Frenchmen: immigrants from various...

When the site for the construction of a high-rise hotel was being prepared at Karantynna Bay in the Crimean city of Sevastopil, a bulldozer’s blade dislodged a slab of an ancient burial vault. A team...