№63, (2012)

There was a saying in the Soviet era: “Poverty is no crime but it is a curse and worse.” Very few remember it today, but this does not mean that something has radically changed here, even though...

The festivals invariable director general Andrii Khalpakhchi told The Day about the festival agenda, its problems, and the festival movement in today’s reality. Out of the 42 years of the...

Glory often finds artists after their death, and this course of events even used to be considered natural. Now artists do not have to wait too long for recognition, and the latter often comes to...

On Sunday the Den-2012 Photo Exhibit closed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Ukraine. Other cities will soon have an opportunity to see part of the photos. Over eight days nearly 10,000...

The organizers of the event told The Day that the bigger part of the museum’s collection, which numbers about 12,000 items, is being kept in the storerooms. Only a few hundred pieces are...

The Ukrainian parliament has passed in the first reading the bill on extending the moratorium on agricultural land sale. Overall 250 MPs voted to ban the purchase and sale of such land until the...

Sadly, today there is no School of Watercolor Art in Ukraine, with an exception of faithful individual artists, one of whom is the Carpathian artist Tetiana Pavlyk who presented in Kyiv her...

Let us remind that Stankovych wrote folk opera Koly Tsvite Paporot (When Fern Blossoms) in the mid-1970s, and its full version was first played on April 8, 2011, at the Music Premieres of the...

Turkey has been called lately a country that shines brighter than the BRIC states. Besides, it is sort of a model of democracy for the countries of Northern Africa and the Middle East. But as...

Florida is one of the key states in the upcoming presidential elections, where both current head of the White House Democrat Barack Obama and ex-governor of the Massachusetts State Republican Mitt...

We are unlikely to make a mistake saying that the image of Mongols and Mongolia is quite contradictory in the historical and cultural memory of the Ukrainian people who consider this country as a...

This exhibit in Kyiv is a logical ending of the eponymous international documentary photo project, which has already been shown in six Ukrainian cities. Scenes of military conflicts in...

Small towns in Donbas, particularly in Luhansk oblast, have acquired the unenviable reputation of being depressive areas. The main cause is that this region’s erstwhile industrial clout is...

The EU is ready to resume the aid program stopped last year and assist Ukraine with 200 million euros. However, first they demand making the system of government purchases trans-parent. This was...

POLTAVA – During the five years of the Orange leaders’ “incompetent rule” Ukrainian society not only got used to endless scuffles among the recent comrades in arms or to the...