№6, (2008)

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...

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...

Petro Shelest was not from “nationally conscious” western Ukraine, yet he was accused of “nationalism.” He headed important industrial projects and never sought a political career. But at the age of...

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...

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...

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...

Even though this piece of news is as portentous as all kinds of crises, impeachments, and resignations, it went almost unnoticed, shoved to the back of the usual reports on the political burlesque...

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...

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...

On Feb. 19 the International Cultural Center of the Arts, better known as October Palace, will host the Young Guard, a festival of Ukrainian heroic songs. This is the latest initiative of the...

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...

The recent debates around the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the compulsory dubbing of all foreign films into Ukrainian indicate that the operators in the Ukrainian film market are divided into two...

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...

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...