№6, (2011)

Via technology? Economic growth? I’ve a better gauge: manners. I don’t mean etiquette, that training of human monkeys for polite society. Manners aren’t about knowing which...

Ukraine’s intelligentsia is outraged by the initiatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, and the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports, laid down in the draft “Concept of...

The 3rd Ukrainian Textile Art Triennial, which was held for over a month in Kyiv’s Artist’s House, came to an end on January 30. The organizers had to prolong the exhibition for a week...

  Zaporizhian Maria Pomazan sets record at World Athletics Championship for Disabled  At the World Athletics Championship for Disabled in New Zealand a native of Zaporizhia Maria...

1921: The Council of the Republic, the then UNR’s supreme authority, starts functioning in Tarnow (Poland), only to cease to exist in August. 1929: The first Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists ends...

At the end of last year the artistic head and founder of the Left Bank’s Theater of Drama and Comedy produced the Three Sisters based on Anton Chekhov’s work. The production was unique...

The long Christmas marathon is now over and it is time to sum up the national mini-photo competition “Ukrainian Christmas” (part of The Day’s cycle “Photo Seasons”)....

According to Oleh Rybachuk, director of the Center UA non-governmental organization (NGO), next summer the EU will discuss a new program of supporting the third sector in Ukraine. In particular, the...

MPs were supposed to vote on the amendments to the Constitution on February 3, but the elated mood which followed the end of the holiday period has sped things up. On the very first day of the 7th...

One of the hardest, according to the officials, reforms — the pension reform — will start in Ukraine in a month. Now this issue is being actively discussed within society and the media...

We must give the current Ukrainian leadership their due: the pace of the ongoing reforms is really impressive. When President Viktor Yanukovych visited Davos later last week, he did not mince words...

Four famous Ukrainian designers have recently presented fragments of their art collections in the country’s capital. The fashion show was timed to the opening of the “YIN” exhibition in the M17...

The emotions aroused by the higher education bill were still high (on January 31, students picke­ted the Verkhovna Rada, demanding its cancellation) when Dmytro Tabachnyk signed a decree...

On January 31 the Kyiv Ivan Franko Theater hosted many prominent Ukrainians: writers, musicians, film directors, art critics and intellectuals. These were people we should see more of, and who know...

Recently, there was the 120th birth anniversary of Pavlo Tychyna — outstanding poet, academic, musician, and artist, and Soviet-era official — his great-granddaughter Tetiana SOSNOV...