№61, (2010)

Within the framework of The Days of Sweden in Lviv the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts is hosting the exhibit “Creative Women: Inventions and Innovations from Sweden.”“Usually people have a...

Whenever we use water, log the woods, or dig coal we are guided by purely material interests and a desire to satisfy our needs at any cost. The latest report of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says...

The band marked its birthday without its founder, artistic director, and conductor, the recently deceased Bohodar Kotorovych. The anniversary concert took place at the National Philharmonic Society...

Dmytro Tabachnyk is a unique person. No one else from his party is able to look so sincerely in the faces of millions of Ukrainians from television screens, or a few chosen interlocutors in a cozy...

The stereotypical belief that politics is solely the domain of men is slowly changing in Ukraine. In 2000 Ukraine signed the Millennium Development Goals at a UN summit. Ukraine pledged to increase...

So far we can only discuss the exit polls. The detailed results of the local elections will most likely be known in the next three days. But some patterns and tendencies can be identified already...

Pakistan has recently been in the spotlight of global news because of the devastating flood, which affected one-third of the country’s area and caused huge damages. Lately this country is...

Last month and a half has seen ample attention accorded to Ukraine in the European Parliament. Actually, there hasn’t been a week in Brussels without a visit of important politicians from Kyiv,...

On October 27 Chernivtsi residents could see The Day’s photo exhibit for the second time. Last time, in 2007, a hundred photos were displayed in the halls of the Chernivtsi Art Museum, next...

1923: Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR adopts a decree instituting the OGPU State Political Directorate of the Soviet Secret Police (Cheka) and places it under the Moscow-...

PLIAMA is an abbreviation for the Ukrainian name of the Lviv Leading Bright Youth Alternative. This festival has an anti-drugs and anti-AIDS message, and was held for the fourth time already....

Two centuries have passed since Frederic Chopin was born in an outbuilding of the Skarbeks’ mansion in Zelazowa Wola, 50 kilometers west from Warsaw. Although the composer left the world in...

It is common knowledge that nations, in order to understand each other better, have to speak the language of culture. Other countries’ embassies in Ukraine take part in the organization of...

October 13 marked 20 years since The Day the foreign ministers of Poland and what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, signed a declaration on the main directions of Ukrainian-Polish...

The burdensome list of economic compromises is the prize Ukraine has received in return for better relations with Russia. It includes the accords on the manufacture of nuclear fuel, in accordance...