№6, (2009)

A year ago the website of Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science posted call for an all-Ukrainian historical and literary contest entitled “My Fatherland through the Eyes of Children from All...

There are a lot of achievements in national rocket engineering which Ukrainian specialists can quite deservedly be proud of. They used to design formidable war missiles as well as spacecraft to...

The meeting of the National Shevchenko Award Committee has selected five laureates out of the 19 candidates shortlisted for the third tier of the selection process. According to the Western...

NEW YORK – The euro suffers from structural deficiencies. It has a central bank, but it does not have a central treasury, and the supervision of the banking system is left to national authorities....

The winter of 1708–09 bro­ught severe cold to the regions of Pol­tava, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Khar­kiv. That year Western Euro­pe was also suffering from cold weather. Many rivers in France and Italy...

Feb. 24 1919: Ukraine and Poland sign a truce. 1990: The Ukrainian Public Cultural Society, its membership comprised of members of Poland’s Ukrainian community, holds a convention in Warsaw and...

The website Politics and Culture of Ukraine (PiK Ukrainy) reports that the Kyiv photographer Gleb Garanich has become the winner of the most authoritative contest in the sphere of photojournalism,...

Ternopil—Young residents of Ternonpil do not even remember that their city used to have the status of Ukraine’s cleanest city. I’m not going to describe how public utility services are operating or...

Under President Viktor Yushchenko’s recent edict on the declassification and study of archival do­cuments related to the Ukrainian liberation movement, political repressions, and the Holo­domor in...

On Feb. 10–18, 2009, the best photos of The Day’s 10th International Photo Contest were temporarily on display in the Picture Gallery of the Kyiv Polytechnical Institute (KPI). The newspaper and its...

When the players of Kyiv’s Dynamo beat Portugal’s Porto in a visiting game of the Champions League, few people stressed that the Ukrainian team fired a single shot into the net of the hosts of the...

The released Faina sailors have returned home and are now in the company of their relatives. Most of the crew members are residents of Odesa. One of the seamen, assistant captain Oleksandr PRYSUKHA...

According to the recently published WTA’s ranking of professional women tennis players, Serena Williams from the US continues to top the list. Ukrinform (Ukrainian National News Agency) reports that...

Feb. 15, 2009, marked the 20th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. On February 12 a gala concert in honor of Afghan veterans who had to fight in that senseless war took...

“I will first stand by the edge of an abyssAnd will suddenly understand,deep in my sadness,That there’s nothing in the worldLike a song in the Ukrainian language.” Leonid KISELIOV (1946–1968...